Ráð Rétt Rúnar: reading the runes in Old English and Old Norse poetry
Ráð Rétt Rúnar: reading the runes in Old English and Old Norse poetry
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Ráð Rétt Rúnar：阅读古英语和古挪威诗歌中的符文
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10.4324/9781315603780
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2017
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Tom Birkett
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为了回应中世纪铭文中常见的“正确解释如尼文”的请求，本文提供了一系列盎格鲁-撒克逊和古挪威诗歌中如尼文主题的语境解读。第一章着眼于古英语谜语中使用的符文，研究材料谜语和埃克塞特书中使用的某些策略之间的联系，并建议符文与自我指涉和参与形式的阅读。第二章探讨了古英语手稿中使用如尼字母缩写的理由，并提出了一种与解锁和揭示有关的诗意联想，如比德的伊玛故事所示。第三章考虑了使用符文的装饰价值，使用“所罗门和土星I”和符文诗作为文本的例子，突出了写作的视觉和物质维度，而第四章比较了史诗埃达的英雄诗中的符文描绘与移民时代的金石证据，试图消除它们反映历史实践的想法。最后一章着眼于《埃达》中写作神话的构建，探索神话反映识字的社会影响的方式。总之，这些方法强调了阅读诗歌中的符文作为文学结构的重要性，脚本通常作为元写作的一种形式，用于探索识字的参数，并提请注意写作本身的过程。
Responding to the common plea in medieval inscriptions to rað rett runar, to ‘interpret the runes correctly’, this thesis provides a series of contextual readings of the runic topos in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse poetry. The first chapter looks at the use of runes in the Old English riddles, examining the connections between material riddles and certain strategies used in the Exeter Book, and suggesting that runes were associated with a self-referential and engaged form of reading. Chapter 2 seeks a rationale for the use of runic abbreviations in Old English manuscripts, and proposes a poetic association with unlocking and revealing, as represented in Bede’s story of Imma. Chapter 3 considers the use of runes for their ornamental value, using 'Solomon and Saturn I' and the rune poems as examples of texts which foreground the visual and material dimension of writing, whilst Chapter 4 compares the depiction of runes in the heroic poems of the Poetic Edda with epigraphical evidence from the Migration Age, seeking to dispel the idea that they reflect historical practice. The final chapter looks at the construction of a mythology of writing in the Edda, exploring the ways in which myth reflects the social impacts of literacy. Taken together these approaches highlight the importance of reading the runes in poetry as literary constructs, the script often functioning as a form of metawriting, used to explore the parameters of literacy, and to draw attention to the process of writing itself.