Ранняя литература

в
каждой строке по меньшей два слова
должны начинаться с одного и

того же
звука.

// с мощной славой,

Полон он песен, // письмён на пользу,

Разных

заклятий // и радостных рун…


(Сага о Вольсунгах, перевод Б. И. Ярхо).

nephew,
after having repulsed
the Vikings
and Ingeld
bowed down at spear-point,

he was cut to pieces at Heorot
with the army of the Heathobards

Хродвульф с Хродгаром,
храбрые, правили
мирно, совместно,
племянник с дядей,
войско викингов
выгнав за пределы,
силу Ингельда
сломив в сраженье,
порубив у Хеорота
хеадобеардов рать

673 — 27 мая 735)

written as a "vision" of
the common medieval type. The poet
falls

asleep in the Malvern Hills and
dreams that in a wilderness he comes
upon the tower of Truth (God) set on a
hill, with the dungeon of Wrong (the
Devil) in the deep valley below, and a
“fair field full of folk" (the world of living
men) between them.

(Latin for "steps").
The poem – part theological allegory,
part social satire

– concerns the
narrator's intense quest for the true
Christian life, which is told from the
point of view of the medieval Catholic
mind. This quest entails a series of
dream-visions and an examination into
the lives of three allegorical characters,
Dowel ("Do-Well"), Dobet ("Do-Better"),
and Dobest

west a wench, as me thought,
Came walking in the way

to Hell-ward
she looked.
Mercy was called that maid a meek thing
withal,
A full benign lady and gentle of speech.
Her sister, as it seemed came softly walking,
Even out of the east and westward she
looked.

that her followed afraid was she never.
When these maidens met

Mercy and Truth,
Each asked the other of this great wonder,
Of the din and of the darkness and how the
day began to dawn,
And what a light and a brightness lay before Hell.

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