... Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, Prophecy and Lordship in the European Warband from La Tène to the Viking Age (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1996). For this topos within Anglo-Saxon tradition in particular, see 2–11, 189–195. 45. McKnight ...
Cultural Difference and Material Culture in Middle English Romance: Normans and Saxons
... Beowulf.46 Likewise, in Old English literature, the image of boiling water, even in a winter landscape, is a literary device that announces the hero's immanent encounter with a monster. Thus, Beowulf sees the “boiling” (ll. 847, 1,422) ...
The Medieval Tradition of Thebes: History and Narrative in the OF Roman de Thèbes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate
... Chaucer's Summary of Statius' Thebaid, II-XII.” Second, according to Cassandra's account, Capaneus dies by “thonder-dynt” (V.1505) following Statius' account where Capaneus dies from a thunderbolt sent down by Zeus (Thebaid, 10.927-30) ...
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