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Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages

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Note to GunnLeif Merl I 98VIII

[All]: See Dan. VII.3-12 for evocation of animal figures in a political allegory (cf. Taylor 1911, 25-6). Greatly augmenting the biblical prophet’s substantial reputation, beyond the information contained in Scripture, was the Somniale ascribed to Daniel. This pseudonymous early medieval compilation, consisting of a list of dream-symbols, underlay much dream symbolism in Icelandic literature, both medieval and more recent (Turville-Petre 1972b, 45-6), and incorporated many mentions of animals seen in dreams. Text and translation of an Old English version are included in Liuzza (2011, 80-123).

References

  1. Bibliography
  2. Turville-Petre, Gabriel. 1972b. ‘Dreams in Icelandic Tradition’. In Turville-Petre 1972a, 30-51. Rpt. with a postscript; originally published in Folklore 69 (1958), 93-111.
  3. Taylor, Rupert. 1911. The Political Prophecy in England. Columbia University Studies in English, vol. 2 no. 13. New York: Columbia University Press.
  4. Liuzza, R. M., ed. and trans. 2011. Anglo-Saxon Prognostics: An Edition and Translation of Texts from London, British Library, MS Cotton Tiberius A.iii. Anglo-Saxon Texts. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer.

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