To use beorn [bear +... «On Translating "Beowulf"»
robot9 января 2015To use beorn [bear + “warrior', or in heroic poetry 'man”] and freca [wolf + warrior', or in heroic poetry 'man”] became a sign that your language was 'poetical", and these words survived, when much else of the ancient diction had perished, as the special property of the writers of alliterative verse in the Middle Ages.
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