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CHRISTAND SATÁN A CRITICAL EDITION CHRIST AND SATAN A CRITICAL EDITION Robert Emmett Finnegan Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Christ and Satán. Christ and Satán Text in Anglo-Saxon, introd. in English. Bibliography: p. ISBN 0-88920-041-6 bd. ISBN 0-88920-040-8 pa. I. Finnegan, Robert Emmett, 1941- PR1630.F55 829'. 1 C77-001234-5 Copyright © 1977 Wilfrid Laurier University Press Waterloo, Ontario, Canadá N2L 3C5 ¿Yo parí ofthis book may be translated or reproduced in anyform, by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. Cover design by Helen Lange PREFACE Christ and Satán was edited separately some fifty years ago by Merrel D. Clubb. Since 1925 it has appeared in Volume I of The Anglo- Saxon Poetic Records: The Junius Manuxcript, 1931, edited by George Philip Krapp. Until recently the poem has not received overly much critical attention. This edition is based upon a careful examination of the manuscript, and I ha ve tried to present a text as cióse to Junius XI as possible. But such are the difficulties of dealing with Christ and Satán that an editor, even of a basically conservative bent, must, if he wishes to offer any- thing more than a transcription, become involved in weighing emen- dations: there is little purpose in perpetuating scribal lapses, or in hallowing unintelligibility. Whenever I have judged an emendation necessary, the original reading is given in the Textual Notes and the foundation of the emendation argued in the Explanatory Notes. 1 have intentionally pared these notes cióse on matters of philology. Many discussions of forms and possible or probable variants are the dead leaves of Anglo-Saxon scholarship, and they ought to be allowed to rest. On occasion, to show the almost universal appeal of an emendation over a form in the manuscript, I have reference to Junius, Thorpe, Bouterwek, Dietrich, Cosijn et al. More rarely do I note in detail the attempt of older scholars to supply those lines they feel were dropped from the poem in one or other transcription: with an emendation we at least work from a known form, but to supply what the manuscript does not possess in any way is to work too much by the spirit. I should here record my thanks to the Canadá Council for a grant which allowed me to study the manuscript at Oxford, and to the Master and scholars of Campion Hall who made my visit most pleasant. The editors of The Explicator, Modern Philology, Classica et Mediaevalia and Philological Quarterly have kindly given me permission to use previously published material in this book. The book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities Research Council of Canadá, using funds provided by the Canadá Council. TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE v ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE BOOK ÍX Introduction I. THE MANUSCRIPT 3 II. THE PROBLEM OF UNITY 12 III. SOURCES 37 IV. LANGUAOE AND DATE 56 The Text THE POEM 68 EXPLANATORY NOTES 91 viii TABLE OF CONTENTS THE GLOSSARY 123 APPENDIX: CHRIST AND SATÁN AND CLASSICAL RHETORIC 151 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 163
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