Marijane Osborn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3711255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marijane Osborn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marijane |
| FAMILY NAME | Osborn |
| SIGNATURE | OSBORN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7672-5911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Approaching Africa with Orosius on the Northumbrian Franks Casket: Conceptual Models for the Casket’s Construction
Three of the Franks Casket’s five carved panels contain scenes from stories in Latin – from the Gospel of Matthew on the front, Virgil’s Aeneid on the left side, and Josephus’s Jewish Wars (via Pseudo-Hegesippus) on the back. Approaching Africa argues that, in addition to these pictures referring to written texts, a fourth Latin text lies behind the casket’s plan, Orosius’s Historiarum Adversus Paganos Libri Septem (‘Seven Books of History Agains…
Rereading The Wife’s Lament with Dido of Carthage: The Husband and the Herheard
The Old English poem in The Exeter Book titled The Wife’s Lament is about longing and loneliness; the woman speaking in the poem longs for her absent husband who has sent her to live in a “cave under an oak tree”. The husband’s attitude toward his wife is a major point of controversy among commentators on the poem: has he sent her there as a punishment or for her protection? This essay argues that he loves her and seeks to protect her in his abse…
The Xtabay: From Forest Guardian to Hungry Demon
The Xtabay is a legendary Mayan forest entity associated with the sacred ceiba tree. The prose-poem by native ethnologist Antonio Mediz Bolio, translated here, represents the version of her story that he knew a century ago, where she appears as a temptress who lures young men under the tree to become her slaves. Behind the romantic sensibility that pervades this poem may lurk the combined shadow of two avatars, an ancient goddess of the hunt and …
Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden
Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity.
Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
Bone-Crones Have No Hearth Some Women In The Medieval Wilderness
Strangely Jumbled”: Attitudes Toward the Native Other in Melville's and D. H. Lawrence's Captivity Narratives
Part II. Beyond the Mere: Other Versions of Beowulfian Stories
"Skjöld": A Song by N. F. S. Grundtvig
The Dragon of Ragnarök
(2007). The Dragon of Ragnarok. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 68-70
Afterword: Amlæd (Hamlet)
The Battle on the Ice
(2007). The Battle on the Ice. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 70-74
Yuletide Beasts at Lejre
Harthgrepa (from Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum , Book I)
(2007). Harthgrepa (from Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, Book I) ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 61-65
Trolls in the Isefjord
"Skep" ( Beinenkorb , * beoleap ) as a Culture-Specific Solution to Exeter Book Riddle 17
(2005). 'Skep' (Beinenkorb, *beoleap) as a Culture-Specific Solution to Exeter Book Riddle 17. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 8-18
Tir as Mars in the Old English Rune Poem
Two-Way Evidence in Beowulf Concerning Viking-Age Ships
Dogode in Wulf and Eadwacer and King Alfred's Hunting Metaphors
(2000). Dogode in Wulf and Eadwacer and King Alfred's Hunting Metaphors. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 3-9
Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World
Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World
Part 1 Mapping Beowulf reinventing Beowulf's voyage to Denmark travelling home with Beowulf. Part 2 Geography in the reader place in question Iceland and Icelanders places in question selves in place places in translation and the metonymy of terrain. Part 3 sage of the saga The road to Drangey where's Grettir
Hleotan and the Purpose of the Old English Rune Poem
(1981). Hleotan and the Purpose of the Old English Rune Poem. Folklore: Vol. 92, No. 2, pp. 168-173
The Vanishing Seabirds in The Wanderer
THE seabirds in the Old English poem The Wanderer provide the most vividly realized scene in the poem, even though they actually appear for only one line. The effectiveness of the seabird scene stems partly from the contrast it provides to the wanderer's previous illusions, and partly from the part the seabirds play in the wanderer's change of perception that follows their appearance. As the wanderer surfaces briefly from his own mind's turmoil t…
Another Look at an Old Tombstone
The Finnsburg Raven and Guðrinc Astah
The Finnsburg Raven and Guðrinc Astah
Another Look at an Old Tombstone
The Vanishing Seabirds in The Wanderer
THE seabirds in the Old English poem The Wanderer provide the most vividly realized scene in the poem, even though they actually appear for only one line. The effectiveness of the seabird scene stems partly from the contrast it provides to the wanderer's previous illusions, and partly from the part the seabirds play in the wanderer's change of perception that follows their appearance. As the wanderer surfaces briefly from his own mind's turmoil t…
Hleotan and the Purpose of the Old English Rune Poem
(1981). Hleotan and the Purpose of the Old English Rune Poem. Folklore: Vol. 92, No. 2, pp. 168-173
Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World
Landscape of Desire: Partial Stories of the Medieval Scandinavian World
Part 1 Mapping Beowulf reinventing Beowulf's voyage to Denmark travelling home with Beowulf. Part 2 Geography in the reader place in question Iceland and Icelanders places in question selves in place places in translation and the metonymy of terrain. Part 3 sage of the saga The road to Drangey where's Grettir
Two-Way Evidence in Beowulf Concerning Viking-Age Ships
Dogode in Wulf and Eadwacer and King Alfred's Hunting Metaphors
(2000). Dogode in Wulf and Eadwacer and King Alfred's Hunting Metaphors. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 3-9
Tir as Mars in the Old English Rune Poem
"Skep" ( Beinenkorb , * beoleap ) as a Culture-Specific Solution to Exeter Book Riddle 17
(2005). 'Skep' (Beinenkorb, *beoleap) as a Culture-Specific Solution to Exeter Book Riddle 17. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 8-18
Part II. Beyond the Mere: Other Versions of Beowulfian Stories
"Skjöld": A Song by N. F. S. Grundtvig
The Dragon of Ragnarök
(2007). The Dragon of Ragnarok. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 68-70
Afterword: Amlæd (Hamlet)
The Battle on the Ice
(2007). The Battle on the Ice. ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 70-74
Yuletide Beasts at Lejre
Harthgrepa (from Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum , Book I)
(2007). Harthgrepa (from Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum, Book I) ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews: Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 61-65
Trolls in the Isefjord
Strangely Jumbled”: Attitudes Toward the Native Other in Melville's and D. H. Lawrence's Captivity Narratives
Bone-Crones Have No Hearth Some Women In The Medieval Wilderness
Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden
Fresh examinations of the role of medicinal plants in medieval thought and practice and how they contributed to broader ideas concerning the body, religion and identity.
Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
Rereading The Wife’s Lament with Dido of Carthage: The Husband and the Herheard
The Old English poem in The Exeter Book titled The Wife’s Lament is about longing and loneliness; the woman speaking in the poem longs for her absent husband who has sent her to live in a “cave under an oak tree”. The husband’s attitude toward his wife is a major point of controversy among commentators on the poem: has he sent her there as a punishment or for her protection? This essay argues that he loves her and seeks to protect her in his abse…
The Xtabay: From Forest Guardian to Hungry Demon
The Xtabay is a legendary Mayan forest entity associated with the sacred ceiba tree. The prose-poem by native ethnologist Antonio Mediz Bolio, translated here, represents the version of her story that he knew a century ago, where she appears as a temptress who lures young men under the tree to become her slaves. Behind the romantic sensibility that pervades this poem may lurk the combined shadow of two avatars, an ancient goddess of the hunt and …
Approaching Africa with Orosius on the Northumbrian Franks Casket: Conceptual Models for the Casket’s Construction
Three of the Franks Casket’s five carved panels contain scenes from stories in Latin – from the Gospel of Matthew on the front, Virgil’s Aeneid on the left side, and Josephus’s Jewish Wars (via Pseudo-Hegesippus) on the back. Approaching Africa argues that, in addition to these pictures referring to written texts, a fourth Latin text lies behind the casket’s plan, Orosius’s Historiarum Adversus Paganos Libri Septem (‘Seven Books of History Agains…
Art (16 works) · History (12 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · History (7 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (7 works) · Historical and Archaeological Studies (6 works) · Medieval Literature and History (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Poetry (5 works)