The Wife's Lament

Titre:	The Wife's Lament (titre moderne)
Date:	X^e siècle
Forme:	53 vers
Langue:	Anglais
Contenu:
Incipit:	Ic þis giedd wrece bi me ful geomorre, minre sylfre sið. Ic þæt secgan mæg, hwæt ic yrmþa gebad, siþþan ic up weox, niwes oþþe ealdes, no ma þonne nu...
Explicit:	... on dreorsele. Dreogeð se min wine micle modceare; he gemon to oft wynlicran wic. Wa bið þam þe sceal of langoþe leofes abidan.

Manuscrit

Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3501 |N|

Éditions modernes

The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, éd. Bernard J. Muir, Revised 2nd Edition, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2000, 2 t.

Traductions modernes

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Études

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Greenfield, Stanley, « The Wife's Lament reconsidered », Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 68, 1953, p. 907-912.
Hall, Alaric, « The images and structure of The Wife's Lament », Leeds Studies in English, 33, 2002, p. 1-29.
Lee, Sung-Il, « The identity of the "Geong Mon" (line 42) in The Wife's Lament, or, The Lament of an Outcast », Global Perspectives on Medieval English Literature, Language, and Culture, éd. Noel Harold Kaylor Jr. et Richard Scott Nokes, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, 2007, p.175-194.
Leslie, R. F., Three Old English Elegies, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1961.
Lowe, Kathryn A., « "A fine and private place": The Wife's Lament ll. 33-34, the translators and the critics », "Lastworda Best": Essays in Memory of Christine E. Fell with Her Unpublished Writings, Donington, Shaun Tyas, 2002, p. 122-143.
Magennis, Hugh, Images of Community in Old English Poetry, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Malone, Kemp, « Two English Frauenlieder », Comparative Literature, 14, 1962, p. 106-117.
Niles, John D., Old English Enigmatic Poems and the Play of the Text, Turnhout, Brepols, 2006.
Schweighauser, Philipp, « Concepts of masculinities in the Wife's Lament and its critical literature », Masculinities – Maskulinitäten: Mythos – Realität – Repräsentation – Rollendruck, éd. Therese Steffen, Stuttgart, Metzler, 2002, p. 177-185.
Tarnopolsky, Damian, « Doubling and difference at the close of The Wife's Lament », Exile in the Middle Ages, éd. Grace Windsor et Leanne Good, Hortulus, 6:1, 2010, s. p. [lien]
Wentersdorf, Karl P., « The situation of the narrator in the Old English Wife's Lament », Speculum, 56:3, 1981, p. 492-516.

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