A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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ID
https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/N.Æthelstan
Language
Latin
Edited
J.A. Robinson, The Times of St Dunstan (Oxford, 1923), p. 57
Metre
octosyllabic line; trochaic clausula
MSS
London, Lambeth Palace 1370 (‘MacDurnan Gospels’) (s. ix/x), f. 3v (addition of s. x?)
Description
Verses recording the gift of a gospel-book by King Athelstan to the church of Christ Church
Bibliography
  • J.J.G. Alexander, Insular Manuscripts: Sixth to the Ninth Century (London, 1978), pp. 86-7; S. Keynes in Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge, 1985), pp. 143-202 at 153-9
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N.Æthelstan

N.Æthelstan 1. Deo digne dogmatizat. Deo digne dogmatizat.
N.Æthelstan 2. [Ast] [Ast]
N.Æthelstan 3. Æthelstanus Anglosæxna Æthelstanus Anglosaexna
N.Æthelstan 4. rex et rector Doruernensi rex et rector Doruernensi
N.Æthelstan 5. metropoli dat per æuum. metropoli dat per aeuum.
N.Æthelstan 6. [‘Mael Brigte mac Tornain propounds this gospel-book throughout the world, in the manner worthy of God; but Athelstan, king and ruler of the Anglo-Saxons, gives it forever to the metropolitan see of Canterbury.’ Keynes, p. 153, n. 52] [‘Mael Brigte mac Tornain propounds this gospel-book throughout the uuorld, in the manner uuorthy of God; but Athelstan, king and ruler of the Anglo-Saxons, giues it foreuer to the metropolitan see of Canterbury.’ Keynes, p. 153, n. 52]