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Unediting Deor

The article reviews editorial and critical work on the Old English poem Deor. Starting from the long-standing cruces of the poem’s third section and moving on to broad interpretive issues, it argues that Deor is an original vernacular take on the de casibus genre, employing a series of interconnected native exempla from the so-called Theodoric cycle as illustrations of stock medieval themes of the fickleness of fortune and the transience of mortal existence. Finally, the article makes a plea for further inquiry into the remaining philological problems of this poem.

Deor; Old English; Anglo-Saxon; de casibus; Theodoric cycle

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