The battle of Brunanburh

Titre:	The battle of Brunanburh
Date:	X^e siècle?
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	73 vers
Contenu:	Poème célébrant la victoire, en 937, des Anglais contre une invasion d'Écossais, Scandinaves et Bretons de Strathclyde à la bataille de Brunanburh.
Incipit:	Her æþelstan cyning, eorla dryhten, beorna beahgifa, and his broþor eac, Eadmund æþeling, ealdorlangne tir geslogon æt sæcce sweorda ecgum…
Explicit:	… Engle and Seaxe up becoman, ofer brad brimu Brytene sohtan, wlance wigsmiþas, Wealas ofercoman, eorlas arhwate eard begeatan.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Battle of Brunanburh, edited by Alistair Campbell, London, Heinemann, [1938], xvi + 168 p.
Seven Old English Poems. Cædmon's Hymn, The Battle of Brunanburh, The Dream of the Rood, The Battle of Maldon, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Deor. Edited, with commentary and glossary by John C. Pope, Indianapolis et New York, Bobbs-Merrill (The Library of Literature), 1966, xiii + 213 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpression:
- New York, Norton (A Norton paperback), 1981, x + 227 p.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- The Song of Beowulf, rendered into English prose by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (The Kings Treasuries of Literature), [1922], 128 p. (ici p. 126-128) [IA]
- Select Translations from Old English Poetry, edited by Albert S. Cook and Chauncey B. Tinker. Revised edition, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1935, xi + 195 p. (ici p. 25-30) [HT] [IA]
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Select Translations from Old English Poetry, edited with prefatory notes and indexes by Albert S. Cook and Chauncey B. Tinker, Boston, Ginn, 1902, xi + 195 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
  - Select Translations from Old English Poetry, edited by Albert S. Cook and Chauncey B. Tinker. Revised edition, Boston, Ginn, 1926, xi + 195 p. [GB] [IA]
  Traduction partielle.
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1954, xiv + 334 p. (ici p. 327-328)
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1926, xvi + 367 p. [HT] [IA]
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1930, xvi + 367 p. [IA]
  - 1934
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1937, xvi + 367 p. [IA]
  - 1950
  Réimpressions:
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1957, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1962, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - 1964
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1967, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - 1970
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Melbourne et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1977, xiv + 334 p. [IA]

Études

Addison, James C., Jr. « Aural interlace in The Battle of Brunanburh », Language and Style, 15, 1982, p. 267-276.
Ashdown, Margaret, « The single combat in certain cycles of English and Scandinavian tradition and romance », The Modern Language Review, 17:2, 1922, p. 113-130.
Cockburn, John Henry, The Battle of Brunanburh and its Period Elucidated by Place-names, London et Sheffield, Leng and Co., 1931, xiv + 300 p. + 3 f.
Foot, Sarah, « Where English becomes British: rethinking contexts for Brunanburh », Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, éd. J. Barrow et A. Wareham, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2008, p. 127-144.
Holland, Andrew, « Warfare, poetry and the community of the realm in later Anglo-Saxon England », Reading Medieval Studies, 47, 2021, p. 1-28. [www]
Klaeber, Fr., « Eine kleine Nachlese zu altenglischen Dichtungen », Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 72, 1950, p. 126-130. DOI: 10.1515/bgsl.1950.1950.72.126
Livingston, Michael, éd., The Battle of Brunanburh: A Casebook, Exeter, University of Exeter Press (Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies), 2011, xvi + 441 p.
Thormann, Janet, « The Battle of Brunanburh and the matter of history », Mediaevalia, 17, 1991 (1994), p. 5-13.

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