The Anglo-Saxon Gnomes as Sacred Poetry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8934967 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynn L Remly (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-158 |
| Publication date | 1971-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.1971.9716720 |
| OpenAlex | W2067450623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
IT has been fifty years since Jessie Weston in Ritual to Romance admirably demonstrated the value of comparative anthropology and religion for solving problems of a literary nature, yet few have followed her important lead. Typically, Blanche C. Williams searches after a source for some of the oldest Anglo-Saxon poetry, the gnomes, but can only conclude that the motive to this 'universal form of literature', which characteristically 'celebrates phenomena of the natural world' or 'promulgates principles of law and morality' must be the same for the youngest Western as for the most ancient Eastern literature, since
Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Morality · Natural (archaeology · Poetry · Romance · Value (mathematics · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1981 - 2022 (42) |
| Highly cited | No |