ABSTRACT Scholarship of the Middle English King Horn (c. 1250–1290) has grappled inconclusively with its obscure toponyms Westernesse and Suddene and with identification of its nebulous Saracen antagonists. Recent work on the literary impact of the historical crises of the Norman Conquest and the Crusades may offer fresh resolution, positing that thirteenth-century romances responded to contemporary realpolitik both by avoidance of taboo issues – here Edward's difficulties in Wales and Scotland, by apposite reference to Havelok the Dane, also in MS Laud Misc. 108 – as well as by fostering a national narrative of identity including the Normans, here evinced in the accentuation of difference between nascent Englishness and the foreign otherness of the Saracens. Thus, a more generative hypothesis is that the text's place names and antagonists may be strategically vague, and analysis of other analogues of the Horn story suggests that detail is ambiguated rather than lost. This interpretation may catalyse a new reading of the poem where imprecision serves political as well as stylistic exigencies.

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不要提战争！：地理，萨拉森斯和金霍恩的“外交”诗人

摘要中古英语国王霍恩（约1250–1290）奖学金以其晦涩的地名Westernesse和Suddene以及其模糊的撒拉逊（Saracen）反对者的身份确定性地争执不下。关于诺曼征服和十字军东征的历史危机的文学影响的最新工作可能会提供新的解决方案，理由是十三世纪的浪漫主义者通过避免禁忌问题来回应当代的现实政治-这里爱德华在威尔士和苏格兰的困境，通过适当的参考也要前往MS Laud Misc的丹麦人Havelok。108 –以及通过培养包括诺曼人在内的民族身份叙事，这在这里着重强调了新生的英语与撒拉逊人的异性之间的差异。因此，更泛泛的假设是文本 地名和对立人在策略上可能含糊不清，对Horn故事的其他类似物的分析表明，细节含糊不清，而不是遗漏。这种解释可能会激发对诗歌的新读法，其中不精确既服务于政治上的要求，也满足风格上的要求。