The Old English Orosius

Titre:	The Old English Orosius
Date:	Vers 900
Commanditaire:	Peut-être le roi Alfred le Grand
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	Prose
Contenu:	Traduction libre des Historiae adversum paganos d'Orose.
Incipit:
Explicit:

Manuscrits

London, British Library, Additional, 47967
London, British Library, Cotton, Tiberius B. I, f. 3r-111v [⇛ Description]
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. Hist. e. 49 (30481)
Fragment.
Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reginensi latini, 497, f. 71
Fragment.

Éditions anciennes

The Anglo-Saxon Version, from the Historian Orosius. By Ælfred the Great. Together with an English translation from the Anglo-Saxon
London, Bowyer and Nichols, 1773
ARLIMA: EA3052
Exemplaires en ligne: [GB] [IA]

Éditions modernes

An Old English Translation of King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Version of the Historian Orosius, éd. John Allen Giles, dans The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great, t. 2, trad. Joseph Bosworth, London, 1858. — Réimpr.: New York, AMS Press, 1969.
The Tollemache Orosius: British Museum Addit. MS. 47967, edited by Alistair Campbell, København, Rosenhilde og Bagger (Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 3), 1953.
The Old English Orosius, edited by Janet Bately, London, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society), 1980.
The Old English History of the World: An Anglo-Saxon Rewriting of Orosius, edited and translated by Malcolm R. Godden, Cambridge et London, Harvard University Press (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 44), 2016, 496 p.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Stories of Early England, retold by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, New York, Crowell, 1906, xv + 340 p. (ici p. 39-41) [IA]
  Réimpression:
  - Stories of Early England, retold by E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, New York, Crowell, 1907, xv + 340 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
  Traduction du passage racontant la bataille, en 755, du roi Cynewulf de Wessex contre le prince Cyneheard.
- Godden 2016 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
en danois:
- Ottar og Wulfstan: to rejsebeskrivelser fra vikingetiden. Oversat og kommenteret af Niels Lund med bidrag af Ole Crumlin-Pedersen, Peter Sawyer og Christine E. Fell, Roskilde, Vikingeskibshallen, 1983, 74 p.

Études

Bately, Janet, « The Old English Orosius: the question of dictation », Anglia, 84, 1966, p. 255-305.
Bately, Janet, « The classical additions in the Old English Orosius », England before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock, éd. Peter Clemoes et Kathleen Hughes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971, p. 237-251.
Bately, Janet, « The relationship between geographical information in the Old English Orosius and Latin texts other than Orosius », Anglo-Saxon England, 1, 1972, p. 45-62.
Bately, Janet, « Alfred as author and translator », A Companion to Alfred the Great, éd. Nicole Guenther Discenza et Paul E. Szarmach, Leiden, Brill (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 58), 2014, p. 113-142.
Bately, Janet, « The Old English Orosius », A Companion to Alfred the Great, éd. Nicole Guenther Discenza et Paul E. Szarmach, Leiden, Brill (Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, 58), 2014, p. 313-343.
Derolez, René, « "— And that difficult word, garsecg" (Gummere) », Modern Language Quarterly, 7, 1946, p. 445-452.
Derolez, René, « The orientation system in the Old English Orosius », England before the Conquest: Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock, éd. Peter Clemoes et Kathleen Hughes, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1971, p. 253-268.
Godden, Malcolm, « The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: rewriting the sack of Rome », Anglo-Saxon England, 31, 2002, p. 47-68.
Godden, Malcolm, « Did King Alfred write anything? », Medium Ævum, 76, 2007, p. 1-23.
Godden, Malcolm, « The Old English Orosius and its sources », Anglia, 129, 2011, p. 297-320.
Hurley, Mary Kate, « Alfredian temporalities: time and translation in the Old English Orosius », The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 112, 2013, p. 405-432.
Khalaf, Omar, « A study of the translator's omissions and instances of adaptation in the Old English Orosius: the case of Alexander the Great », Filologia germanica, 5, 2013, p. 195–222.
Kirkman, Ann, « Proper names in the Old English Orosius », Modern Language Review, 25, 1930, p. 1-22 et 140-151.
Kretzschmar, William A., Jr., « Adaptation and anweald in the Old English Orosius », Anglo-Saxon England, 16, 1987, p. 127-145.
Leneghan, Francis, « Translatio imperii: the Old English Orosius and the rise of Wessex », Anglia, 133, 2015, p. 1-50.
Ogura, Michiko, Words and Expressions of Emotion in Medieval English, Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang (Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature, 39), 2013, 345 p.
O'Keeffe, Katherine O'Brien, « Reading the C-text: the after-lives of London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. I », Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage, éd. Phillip Pulsiano et Elaine M. Treharne, Aldershot, Ashgate, 1998, p. 137-160.
Potter, Simeon, « Commentary on King Alfred's Orosius », Anglia, 71, 1953, p. 385-437.
Tyler, Elizabeth M., « Trojans in Anglo-Saxon England: precedent without descent », The Review of English Studies, 64, 2004, p. 1-20.
VanderBilt, Deborah, « Translation and orality in the Old English Orosius », Oral Tradition, 13, 1998, p. 377-397.
VanderBilt, Deborah, « Translation and orality in the Old English Orosius », Oral Tradition, 13:2, 1998, p. 377-397. [www]
Walker, Victoria Elizabeth Harriet, The Old English Orosius: Writing an Anglo-Saxon History of the World, doctoral thesis, King's College, London, 2017, 164 p. [kcl.ac.uk]
Whitelock, Dorothy, « The prose of Alfred's reign », Continuations and Beginnings, éd. E. G. Stanley, London, Nelson, 1966, p. 67-103.

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