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STUDIES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Editorial Board under the auspices of the
Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Elizabeth M. Tyler (University of York)
Julian D. Richards (University of York)
Ross Balzaretti (University of Nottingham)
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Niles, John D.
Old English heroic poems and the social life of texts. – (Studies in the early
Middle Ages ; 20)
1. Epic poetry, English (Old) – History and criticism 2. Literature and society
– England – History – To 1500 3. Heroes in literature 4. England – Social
life and customs – To 1066
I. Title
829.1'009355
ISBN-13: 9782503520803
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‘Since when’, he asked,
‘Are the first line and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?’
—Seamus Heaney, ‘The Fragment’, from
Electric Light
(2001)
‘If I am to tell you what my story means’, she said,
‘I must tell it again.’
—Zulu storyteller speaking to Harold Scheub,
from his book
The Tongue Is Fire
(1996), p. xviii.
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