The studied innocence of Maldon of the traditional figures we find in the West Saxon genealogy or the five legendary poems--Beowulf, Widsith, Waldere, The Fight at Finnsburh, and Deor--would suggest that it was composed after some subtle threshold in the evolution of traditional narrative culture, some fading of the force and interest such heroes had still had for King Alfred at the end of the ninth century.(17) Clearly
Germanic legend as a cycle of traditional narratives proved separable from
Germanic tradition as a more general mode of poetic composition and performance.
Russell wants "to better illustrate the disparity between
Germanic and Christian values" (p.
While it is well-known that the cinematic genre I work in most often [horror] was virtually invented by German Expressionist filmmakers, the vast influence of
Germanic culture and style on cinema in general has been less celebrated.
Of them, 122 appear following the noun, which is a much higher proportion than the one seen for
Germanic adjectives.
Excerpts from interviews with these four men are interspersed with shots of riverscapes--some sublime and bucolic, some postindustrial and polluted--and points of interest along the route: residents of Vokovar, Croatia, marching in remembrance of the Serb's 1991 attack on their city; May Day celebrations in Hungary; Walhalla, King Ludwig I's monument to
Germanic greatness: the empty, debris-strewn lecture hall at Freiburg.
Also available in a hardcover edition (0268041083, $50.00), Reading The Medieval Book: Word, Image, And Performance In Wolfram Von Eschenbach's Willehalm by Kathryn Starkey (Assistant Professor, Department of
Germanic Languages, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill), examines one of the most important epic poems in 13th Century Germany and its redaction in a richly illustrated manuscript created just fifty-five years after the poem's composition.
To the north and east of the Danube, fierce
Germanic and Scythian tribes roamed to the edges of the known world.
It also paid a
Germanic level of attention to aerodynamics; reducing panel gaps by half in many areas, and adding underbody covers for the engine, evaporative canister and third seat pan to reduce air turbulence.
Lilith learns how Ulric was the victim of the
Germanic Knights of the Sepulcher.
Their book offers a glimpse--the best we are likely ever to have--into those obscure decades when
Germanic humanism was laying the foundations of the dominant position it held on the eve of the Reformation.
Both Sonne and sun are derived from ancient
Germanic predecessors such as sunna, sunno etc.