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Thoughts on early medieval literature, Tolkien's Middle-earth, and things in between.

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How to Wreck an Ent-work, Part II

This is the second part of a series of posts examining Old English words that are used in connection with the destruction of enta geweorc, giant-works. Part 1, dealing with the verb toginan, can be found here.

tohlidan means “to split open...

20 days ago
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How to Wreck an Ent-work, Part I

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Much of the focus on Ent Work has so far been upon the terms used for giants – words like ent, eoten, and gigant. We have examined these words in their contexts and tried to come to an understanding of their pos...

a month ago
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"In the manner of a giant"

In an earlier post, I discussed the likening of the Jewish hero Judas Maccabeus to an ent in Aelfric’s sermon on Maccabees.

Aelfric did not invent Judas’ resemblance to a giant: he was translating the Biblical account. Where 1 Maccabees 3...

2 months ago
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The Heritage of Giants

The Hunninge Image Stone, thought to refer to the events described in Atlakviða. By Jürgen Howaldt - Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 2.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=319218

Many problems abound in dating works of Old Eng...

5 months ago
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Cities Entish and Otherwise

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The first occasion where the phrase enta geweorc is likely to be encountered by a modern reader – in translation or otherwise – is in the poem The Ruin, where it features prominently in line 2:

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5 months ago
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