Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages, Edited from Original Manuscripts and Scarce Publications, Volume 12Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1844 - English literature |
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... century , as the passages we have quoted above shew them to have been to the Flemings a century later . Guibert , or Wibert , a native of Beauvais , was elected Abbot of the Monastery of Nogent , near Coucy , in 1104 , and died in 1124 ...
... century , as the passages we have quoted above shew them to have been to the Flemings a century later . Guibert , or Wibert , a native of Beauvais , was elected Abbot of the Monastery of Nogent , near Coucy , in 1104 , and died in 1124 ...
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... century . § vi . We have thus historical testimony to the fact of the story being current at the commencement of the twelfth century . The names of the chief actors afford philological evidence of its existence in still earlier times ...
... century . § vi . We have thus historical testimony to the fact of the story being current at the commencement of the twelfth century . The names of the chief actors afford philological evidence of its existence in still earlier times ...
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... centuries . After showing that the names applied to the several animals , far from being vague and unmeaning , were originally strictly significant , Grimm proceeds to spe- cify the several classes into which these epithets were capable ...
... centuries . After showing that the names applied to the several animals , far from being vague and unmeaning , were originally strictly significant , Grimm proceeds to spe- cify the several classes into which these epithets were capable ...
Page xxi
... century . I venture to maintain that this name alone justifies the supposition that the Fables of the Fox and the Wolf were known to the Franks in the fourth , * Rechts - Alterthümer , 774 , 787 . c fifth and sixth centuries , when they ...
... century . I venture to maintain that this name alone justifies the supposition that the Fables of the Fox and the Wolf were known to the Franks in the fourth , * Rechts - Alterthümer , 774 , 787 . c fifth and sixth centuries , when they ...
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Percy Society. fifth and sixth centuries , when they used the yet un- alloyed German tongue , dulled by no influx of the Gaulish language — that they took the fables with them from Germany across the Rhine . ” * § VII . The next question ...
Percy Society. fifth and sixth centuries , when they used the yet un- alloyed German tongue , dulled by no influx of the Gaulish language — that they took the fables with them from Germany across the Rhine . ” * § VII . The next question ...
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aferd agayn Anglo-Saxon ayenst beestis Bellyn Bruyn the bere brynge CAPITULO catte Caxton chyldren comen complayned cosyn coude counseyl court dame dayes deth drede dyde edition euyl eyen fable fatte fayn fayr felde Flemish fore frendes fynde grete Grimm Grymbert gydre gyue hath haue heed herde herte Ibid Isengrim kynge Kywart laye lignage lord the kyng Low German lyke Maleperduys maye moche myght neuer neuew nyght ouer Piers Ploughman poem praye preest quene rede Reinaert Reineke Reynard the Fox Reynardine Reynart sawe sayde saye sette shold shold haue sore sorowe spack stode subtyl suffre theef thenne ther therfore therin therof theyr thise thou thyng thynke tresour trespaced trouthe Tybert tyme vpon wente whan wold haue wolf wordes worship wulf wylle wyse wyste wyth wythout ye haue ye shal yf ye Ysegrym Zwentibold