The life of Saint Guthlac. The issue of intertextuality in Old English hagiography
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-3-179-188
Abstract
The article considers the issue of the intertextuality of Old English hagiography based on the material of prose and poetic works relating to Saint Guthlac, one of the first national English hermit saints. The author analyzes the degree of influence of continental hagiographic canons (including St. Anthony’s hagiography) and the Germanic heroic-epic tradition on St. Guthlac’s hagiographies. The lexical ways of expressing the epic motif of ‘exile’, characteristic of the Old English heroic elegies “The Wanderer” and “The Seafarer”, are studied in the alliterative poem “Guthlac B”, which describes the death of the holy ascetic.
About the Author
N. Yu. Gvozdetskaya
Russian State University for the Humanities; Sretensky Theological Academy
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Natalia Yu. Gvozdetskaya, Dr. of Sci. (Philology), professor
6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047
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Gvozdetskaya N.Yu. The life of Saint Guthlac. The issue of intertextuality in Old English hagiography. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2024;(3):179-188. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-3-179-188
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