Christian Theology and Old English Poetry

Abraham acceptance Alcuin allegorical allegorical interpretation Anglo-Saxon appears attitude Augustine baptism Bede beginning at line Beowulf bið C. L. Wrenn Caedmon Caedmon Manuscript century Christ Christian exile comitatus context Cynewulf death early earth elegiac elegies England epic eschatological eternal Etham Exeter Book exile theme Exodus fact faith figure Forþon Germanic glory God's Gollancz Greenfield hell Holy Ireland Irish church Israelites journey land land-dweller Last Judgment literal lock man's manuscript meaning medieval MICHIGAN Middle Ages monasteries monastic mortal motif nautical imagery Noah O. S. Anderson ofer Old English Literature Old English poems Old English poetry Old Testament pagan passage patristic Paulinus of Nola peregrinus pillars poet poet's possible Prudentius R. K. Gordon reading reference Roman salvation scholars Scripture Seafarer seems significant spirit story structure suggests symbolic thematic tion trans translation wanderer wanderer's word þæs þæt þonne þurh