ABSTRACT This article surveys linguistic archaisms in Hrothgar’s sermon in order to argue for the authenticity of this passage and for the unselfconscious nature of archaism in Beowulf. It furnishes evidence that undermines theories of interpolation and scribal recomposition, while lending support to the notion that the Beowulf manuscript faithfully preserves a work that one poet composed centuries earlier.

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赫罗斯加布道的语言

摘要 本文调查了 Hrothgar 布道中的语言古语，以论证这段经文的真实性以及《贝奥武夫》中古语的无意识本质。它提供的证据破坏了插值和抄写重组理论，同时支持了贝奥武夫手稿忠实地保存了一位诗人几个世纪前创作的作品的观点。