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Title: Contributions to Old English literature
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Napier, Arthur S. (Arthur Sampson), 1853-1916
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Publisher: (Oxford, Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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sk, and the arrows on thisside are from his bow. He suggests that Egil only made afeint of shooting at his brother, and then turned and attackedNiShad and his men ^. I do not feel able to accept this explanation. A flying Cp. below, p. 368. Wadstein believes that the picture refers to an incident told in theballad of Wyllyam of Cloudesle, who has been identified by Jakob Grimm,Child, and others, writh Egil. Wyllyam, who had been outlawed forvenison, was visiting his wife, when the justice and sheriff, informed of hisvisit, attacked him, and, after a fierce resistance, he was finally taken. Thisattack, Wadstein thinks, is represented by the picture. But outlawry stories of this kind were common; they easily and naturallyoriginated in post-Conquest times as a result of the severity of the forestlaws, so that there is no justification whatever in assuming this particularincident in the late ballad to have any old Germanic background or to haveformed an integral part of the old Egil Saga.
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I. THE TOP OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE 367 Weland would surely have been represented with wingsinstead of with a superfluous shield. I take it that thisfigure (as also the figure underneath the disk) is carved in ahorizontal position merely because there was otherwise noroom for him. IL The Front. The inscription runs : Left: hronses banTop: flsc. flodu. ahof on fergRight: enberig Bottom (reversed runes reading from right to left): war))ga:sric grorn pser he on greut giswom Of the various renderings proposed, that of Sweet ^ seemsto be the most generally accepted, though it is not free fromdifficulties. He translates : The fish-flood lifted the whalesbones on to the mainland ; the ocean became turbid wherehe swam aground on the shingle. Hofmann separates the hronxs ban from the rest andtakes it to refer to the material from which the casket ismade. In this I think he is right; it is metrically superfluous.Fiscjlodu he rightly regards as two words, the latter being The right end-piece, sepacu31924031425634

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