The Anglo-Latin elegy of Herbert and Wulfgar
David W. Porter
Abstract A poem by a French monk named Herbert petitions Wulfgar Abbot of Abingdon for gift warm clothing. The poem, mock epic employing alliteration and hermeneutic vocabulary, presents the seasons as warring deities. Using similar technique in final eight lines denies with humourous response. This article contains an edition, translation, analysis along brief biographies two authors. Another work Herbert, prosimetric letter requesting allowance fish, is edited translated appendix.
Anglo-Saxon England