| LC control no. | n 91009767 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Uniform title heading | Widsith |
| Variant(s) | Widsið Widsidh Far traveller Exeter book. Widsith Scop or gleeman's tale Far traveler |
| Form of work | Poetry |
| Beginning date | 06 |
| Characteristic | Old English poem |
| Found in | Lintzel, M. Myrgingas und Mauringa, 1920: p. 113 (Widsidh) Brit 3 (Widsith; Far traveller; Old English poem, prob. 7th cent., preserved in the Exeter book) LC data base, 1-30-91 (hdg.: Widsið; usage: Wīdsīð) Beowulf, c1962: title page (Widsith) p. viii ("The Scop or Gleeman's Tale", now usually known as "Widsith") p. 217 (Widsið [in Old English]; Widsith [in English]) The new encyclopædia Britannica, c2010: v. 12, p. 648 (Widsith, Modern English Far Traveler, Old English poem, probably from the 7th century, that is preserved in the Exeter Book, a 10th-century collection of Old English poetry. "Widsith" is an idealized self-portrait of a scop (minstrel) of the Germanic heroic age) The Oxford companion to English literature, 2000 (Widsith, a poem of 143 lines in Old English, named from its opening word, in the Exeter Book; thought to date substantially from the 7th cent. and thus to be the earliest poem in the language) The Oxford encyclopedia of British literature, 2006: v. 1, p. 370 (Widsith (seventh century?); perhaps oldest poem in the vernacular) The Cambridge history of English literature, 1907-1917: v. 1, p. 1 (Widsith) general index (Widsith) The Cambridge guide to literature in English, 2006 (Widsith. An Old English poem preserved in the Exeter Book. Dating from the 7th century, it is one of the oldest surviving works in the vernacular) The Cambridge history of English and American literature, 1907-1921, via Bartleby.com, August 15, 2014: v. 1, chapter I, section 1 (Widsith) v. 1, chapter I, section 2 (The first English men of letters of whom we have record--smiths of song, as the poet-priests are called in The Ynglinga Saga--were the gleemen of minstrels who played on the harp and chanted heroic songs while the ale-mug or mead-cup was passed round, and who received much reward in their calling. The teller of the tale in Widsith is a typical minstrel of this kind, concerned with the exercise of his art.) v. 1, chapter 3, section 6 (Widsith; though not an epic itself, it contains much matter in common with poems of that type; the minstrel's name is really unknown, for Widsith is an obviously fictitious name (meaning "far-travelled")) <http://www.bartleby.com/cambridge/> The Continuum encyclopedia of British literature, 2003: p. 731 (Widsith) Webster's new world companion to English and American literature, c1973: p. 508 (Widsith) A concordance to the Anglo-Saxon poetic records, 1978: p. xv (Widsith) The Columbia electronic encyclopedia, ©2013, via TheFreeDictionary website, August 15, 2014 (Widsith, 7th-century Anglo-Saxon poem found in the Exeter Book. It is an account of the wanderings of a Germanic minstrel and of the legends he relates. The poem gives an excellent description of minstrel life in the Germanic heroic age.) Wikipedia, August 15, 2014 (Widsith is an Old English poem of 144 lines. The only text of the fragment is copied in the Exeter Book) |
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