The fates of the apostles

Titre:
Date:	autour du IX^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	Vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Hwæt! Ic þysne sang siðgeomor fand on seocum sefan, samnode wide hu þa æðelingas ellen cyðdon, torhte ond tireadige. Twelfe wæron…
Explicit:	… þær cyning engla clænum gildeð lean unhwilen. Nu a his lof standeð, mycel ond mære, ond his miht seomaþ, ece ond edgiong, ofer ealle gesceaft. Finit.

Manuscrits

Vercelli, Biblioteca capitolare, 117, f. 52v-53v [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, with an English translation. By J. M. Kemble, London, The Ælfric Society, 1843-1846, 2 t., xvi + 100, x + 110 p. (ici t. 2, p. 94-99) [GB] [IA]
Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker, Kassel, Wigand, 1883-1898, 5 t. (ici t. 2, p. 87-91) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Éditions antérieures:
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie in kritisch bearbeiteten Texten und mit vollständigem Glossar herausgegeben von C. W. M. Grein, Göttingen, Wigand, 1857-1864, 4 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. I. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1881, vii + 422 p. + [4] p. de pl. [GB] [IA]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. II. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1888, vi + 210 p. [GB] [IA]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. III. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1897, [vii] + 248 p. [GB] [IA]
Andreas and the Fates of the Apostles, two Anglo-Saxon narrative poems edited with introduction, notes, and glossary by Georg Philip Krapp, Boston etc., Ginn and Company (The Albion Series of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English Poetry), 1906, lxxxi + 238 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
[Erreur! La référence ForsterM1913b est introuvable.]
Fac-similé du ms. de Vercelli.
The Vercelli Book, edited by George Philip Krapp, London, Routledge; New York, Columbia University Press (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 2), 1932, xciv + 152 p.
Andreas and The Fates of the Apostles, éd. Kenneth R. Brooks, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1961.
The Old English Poems of Cynewulf, edited and translated by Robert E. Bjork, Cambridge et London, Harvard University Press, 2013, xxi + 266 p. ISBN: 9780674072633

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Kemble 1843-1846 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- The Poems of Cynewulf, Translated into English Prose by Charles W. Kennedy; With an Introduction, Bibliography, and Facsimile Page of the Vercelli MS, London, Routledge; New York, Dutton, 1910, xii + 347 p. — Réimpr.: New York, Peter Smith, 1949.
- 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. 178-180)
  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]
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry: An Anthology of Old English Poems in Prose Translation, with introduction and headnotes by S. A. J. Bradley, London, Dent (Everyman's Library, 1794), 1982, xxvi + 559 p. — Réimpr.: 1995; 2000.
- Bjork 2013 (voir sous Éditions modernes)

Études

Boren, James, « Form and meaning in Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles », The Cynewulf Reader, éd. Robert Bjork, New York et London, Routledge, 2001, p. 57-65.
Calder, Daniel, « The Fates of the Apostles, the Latin martyrologies and the litany of the saints », Medium Ævum, 44, 1975, p. 219-224.
Cross, J. E., « Cynewulf's traditions about the Apostles in Fates of the Apostles », Anglo-Saxon England, 8, 1979, p. 163-175. — Réimpr. dans Cynewulf: Basic Readings, éd. R. E. Bjork, New York, 1996, p. 79-94.
Gleason, Raymond, « The riddle of the runes: the runic passage in Cynewulf's Fates of the Apostles », Essays in Medieval Studies, 9, 1992, p. 19-32.
Hamilton, G. L., « The sources of the Fates of the Apostles and Andreas », Modern Language Notes, 35, 1920, p. 385-389.
Hieatt, Constance, « The Fates of the Apostles: imagery, structure, and meaning », The Cynewulf Reader, éd. Robert Bjork, New York et London, Routledge, 2001, p. 66-77.
McCulloh, John M., « Did Cynewulf use a martyrology? Reconsidering the sources of The Fates of the Apostles », Anglo-Saxon England, 29, 2000, p. 67-83. DOI: 10.1017/S0263675100002416
Perkins, R., « On the sources of the Fata Apostolorum », Modern Language Notes, 32, 1917, p. 159-161.
Runner, Jacob Wayne, « An unseen eighth rune: runic legacy and multiliteral performativity in Cynewulf's The Fates of the Apostles », Humanities, 10:4, 2021, n° 124. DOI: 10.3390/h10040124
Sarrazin, Gregor, « Die Fata Apostolorum und der Dichter Kynewulf », Anglia, 12, 1889, p. 375-387. [GB: ex. 1, ex. 2] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Sisam, Kenneth, « Cynewulf and his poetry », Proceedings of the British Academy, 18, 1932, p. 302-331. — Réimpr. dans Studies in the History of Old English Literature, Oxford, 1953, p. 1-28.
Skeat, Walter W., « Andreas and Fata Apostolorum », An English Miscellany Presented to Dr. Furnivall in Honour of his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1901, p. 408-420. [GB] [IA]

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