Soul and body

Auteur:
Titre:	The departed soul's address to the body (éd. Kemble); Body and soul I (version du ms. de Vercelli); Body and soul II (version du ms. d'Exeter)
Date:	IX^e ou X^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	166 vers (ms. Vercelli)
Contenu:
Incipit (Vercelli):	Huru, ðæs behofað hæleða æghwylc þæt he his sawle sið sylfa geþence, hu þæt bið deoplic þonne se deað cymeð, asyndreð þa sybbe þe ær samod wæron…
Explicit (Vercelli):	– æt ðam dome þær dædum agilpan, hwylce earnunga uncre wæron. Wat ic þæt þu wære on woruldrice geþungen þrymlice þysses [.............] [la fin manque]
Incipit (Exeter):	Huru, ðæs behofaþ hæleþa æghwylc þæt he his sawle sið sylfa bewitige, hu þæt bið deoplic þonne se deað cymeð, asundrað þa sibbe, þa þe ær somud wæron…
Explicit (Exeter):	– lic acolad þæt he longe ær werede mid wædum. Bið þonne wyrmes giefl, æt on eorþan. þæt mæg æghwylcum men to gemyndum modsnotterra.

Manuscrits

Éditions modernes

Codex Exoniensis. A Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, from a Manuscript in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, with an English translation, notes and indexes, by Benjamin Thorpe, London, Pickering for The Society of Antiquaries of London, 1842, xvi + 546 p. (ici p. 366-367) [GB] [IA]
Édition et traduction du texte du ms. d'Exeter (Body and soul II).
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. 100-110) [GB] [IA]
Édition et traduction du texte du ms. de Vercelli (Body and soul I).
The Exeter Book Part Two, London, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series), 1933.
The Exeter Book, éd. George Philip Krapp et Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie, New York, Columbia University Press (The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 3), 1936.
The Old English Soul and Body, éd. Douglas Moffat, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 1990.
The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, éd. Bernard J. Muir, Revised 2nd Edition, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2000, 2 t.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Thorpe 1842 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Kemble 1843-1846 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Early English Poetry, translated by Charles W. Kennedy, New York, Oxford University Press, 1961.
- 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.

Études

Anderson, James A., « Deor, Wulf and Eadwacer, and The Soul's Address: how and where the Old English Exeter Book riddles begin », The Old English Elegies: New Essays in Criticism and Research, 1983, p. 204-230.
Ferguson, Mary Heyward, « The structure of the Soul's Address to the Body in Old English », Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 69, 1970, p. 72-80.
Frantzen, Allen J., « The Body in Soul and Body I », The Chaucer Review, 17, 1982, p. 76-88.
Hill, Thomas D., « Punishment according to the hoints of the body in the Old English Soul and Body », Notes and Queries, 213, 1968, p. 409–410; 214, 1969, p. 246.
Orton, Peter R., « Disunity in the Vercelli Book Soul and Body », Neophilologus, 63:3, 1979, p. 450-460.
Orton, Peter R., « The Old English Soul and Body: a further examination », Medium Ævum, 48, 1979; p. 173-197.
Smetana, Cyril, « Second thoughts on Soul and Body I », Mediaeval Studies, 29, 1967, p. 193-205.