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Author: Janet Bately Publisher: Viking Ship Museum/National Museum of Denmark ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
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At some time in the late 9th century, a Norwegian seafarer by the name of Ohthere [Oht-her-e] told the West Saxon king Alfred of his voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark. Ohthere's report made such an impression at the court of King Alfred that it was recorded and subsequently inserted into the Old English version of the late Roman world history by Orosius, accompanied by Wulfstan's account of a voyage across the Baltic Sea. Ohthere's account is the earliest known description of the North by a Scandinavian and gives a fascinating and highly trustworthy glimpse of the early Viking Age. Since the 16th century, Ohthere's voyages have been debated by an ever growing number of scholars, such as linguists, historians and archaeologists. In this book, a panel of experts presents the original source in its geographical, cultural, nautical and economic context.
Author: Janet Bately Publisher: Viking Ship Museum/National Museum of Denmark ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
At some time in the late 9th century, a Norwegian seafarer by the name of Ohthere [Oht-her-e] told the West Saxon king Alfred of his voyages along the coasts of Norway and Denmark. Ohthere's report made such an impression at the court of King Alfred that it was recorded and subsequently inserted into the Old English version of the late Roman world history by Orosius, accompanied by Wulfstan's account of a voyage across the Baltic Sea. Ohthere's account is the earliest known description of the North by a Scandinavian and gives a fascinating and highly trustworthy glimpse of the early Viking Age. Since the 16th century, Ohthere's voyages have been debated by an ever growing number of scholars, such as linguists, historians and archaeologists. In this book, a panel of experts presents the original source in its geographical, cultural, nautical and economic context.
Author: Michael Treichler Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3638746070 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 25
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Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: Good, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Anglistics), course: English through the ages, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The description of Ohthere's voyages is an insertion into a translation of "A history of the world" by Paulus Orosius. Orosius was a fifth century Spanish cleric, who was engaged by the North African Bishop Augustinus of Hippo to write his Historia adversus paganos ("History against the pagans") in order to refute pagan claims that the coming of Christianity was responsible for recent disasters in Europe. Possibly, the Old English Orosius was one of the works of translation commissioned by King Ælfred of Wessex (reign: 871 - 899) as a part of his educational program proclaimed in the preface to Gregory the Great 's Pastoral Care ( cf. Raith 1958: 1) . Since Orosius' version only covered the geography south of the Alps, it was lacking the Northern part of Western Europe. Therefore, the narratives of the voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, two seafarers, who sailed the Northern and Baltic Sea, were added to complete and extend Orosius` description. The text of Orosius is divided into six books, which are each further subdivided into sections. The present work will concentrate on the first section of the first book where Ohthere reports to King Alfred about his first journey from his homeland, Halgoland, which today is the province of Hålogaland in Northern Norway, around the Northern Cape to the White Sea (Ekblom 1941/42: 115). Since most readers will be unfamiliar with the Old English language, a normal translation of the text would not be sufficient to identify its grammatical structure. Therefore, the first part of the following analysis contains an interlinear morphemic translation of the Old English text. The second part of the analysis starts with an examination of several functions of OE cases foun
Author: Alfred (King of England) Publisher: ISBN: Category : English literature Languages : en Pages : 130
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"This description of Europe and the accounts of the voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan, the undoubted compositions of King Alfred, are extracted from the King's Anglo-Saxon version of Orosius"--Pref., p. ii.
Author: Janet Bately
Author: Janet Bately
Author: Alfred (Wessex, König)
Author: Michael Treichler
Author: Alfred (King of England)
Author: King Alfred![A Description of Europe, and the Voyages of Othere and Wulfstan ... With a facsimile copy of the whole Anglo-Saxon text ... a printed Anglo-Saxon text ... and a literal English translation and notes by the Rev. Joseph Bosworth. [With a map.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/DMFjAAAAcAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Alfred (King of England)
Author: P. Orosius
Author: Paulus Orosius![King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of the ... History of the world by Orosius, containing a preface, notes, a literal Engl. tr., mr. Hampson's Essay on king Alfred's geography [&c.] by J. Bosworth PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/UikAAAAAQAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: Paulus Orosius
Author: Paulus Orosius