Waltharius13 - Revision history

Andrew Parchman at 05:15, 16 December 2009

2009-12-16T05:15:25Z

Jan Ziolkowski at 18:03, 14 December 2009

2009-12-14T18:03:18Z

Julian Yolles: /* The Franks under Gibich surrender to Attila, giving Hagen as a hostage (13–33) */

2009-12-13T01:07:23Z

‎The Franks under Gibich surrender to Attila, giving Hagen as a hostage (13–33)

Julian Yolles: /* The Franks under Gibich surrender to Attila, giving Hagen as a hostage (13–33) */

2009-12-13T00:58:56Z

‎The Franks under Gibich surrender to Attila, giving Hagen as a hostage (13–33)

Andrew Parchman at 01:32, 12 December 2009

2009-12-12T01:32:27Z

Andrew Parchman at 01:28, 12 December 2009

2009-12-12T01:28:48Z

Andrew Parchman at 01:08, 12 December 2009

2009-12-12T01:08:50Z

Andrew Parchman at 08:34, 1 December 2009

2009-12-01T08:34:14Z

Andrew Parchman at 08:23, 1 December 2009

2009-12-01T08:23:47Z

Andrew Parchman at 08:09, 1 December 2009

2009-12-01T08:09:33Z

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-|{{Comment|After briefly introducing the reader to the general stage of the poem and to the specific character (Attila) who precipitates its drama, the poet takes the narrative quickly to action. Note the opening dactyls that spring the reader right into Attila's breaking camp. <br />The Franks are the first of three peoples introduced from which the four major characters come. Just as the later sequential battle scenes [IDENTIFY LINES JZ] are somewhat repetitive, lines 13-92 present in similar terms the reactions of the Franks, Burgundians and Aquitanians to the threat of invading Huns: all of them offer a treaty and supply a hostage.}}
+|{{Comment|After briefly introducing the reader to the general stage of the poem and to the specific character (Attila) who precipitates its drama, the poet takes the narrative quickly to action. Note the opening dactyls that spring the reader right into Attila's breaking camp. <br />The Franks are the first of three peoples introduced from which the four major characters come. Just as the later sequential battle scenes of lines 640-1061 are somewhat repetitive, lines 13-92 present in similar terms the reactions of the Franks, Burgundians and Aquitanians to the threat of invading Huns: all of them offer a treaty and supply a hostage.}}
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 |[[Quorum]] [[rex]] [[Gibicho]] [[solio]] [[pollebat]] [[in]] [[alto]],

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-|{{Comment|After briefly introducing the reader to the general stage of the poem and its instigating player, Attila, the poet quickly moves the plot to action. Note the opening dactyls that spring the reader right into Attila's breaking camp. <br />The Franks are the first of three peoples introduced from which the the four major players are derived. Similar to the somewhat repetitive nature of the later sequential battle scenes, lines 13-92 offer the similar reactions of the Franks, Burgundians and Aquitanians to the threat of invading Huns, i.e. offer a treaty and supply a hostage.}}
+|{{Comment|After briefly introducing the reader to the general stage of the poem and to the specific character (Attila) who precipitates its drama, the poet takes the narrative quickly to action. Note the opening dactyls that spring the reader right into Attila's breaking camp. <br />The Franks are the first of three peoples introduced from which the four major characters come. Just as the later sequential battle scenes [IDENTIFY LINES JZ] are somewhat repetitive, lines 13-92 present in similar terms the reactions of the Franks, Burgundians and Aquitanians to the threat of invading Huns: all of them offer a treaty and supply a hostage.}}
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 |[[Quorum]] [[rex]] [[Gibicho]] [[solio]] [[pollebat]] [[in]] [[alto]],
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-|{{Comment| As Gunther is introduced to the reader first as an "orta" in line 15 and only next in line 16 by name, so the perenthetical "quam postea narro" indicates Gunther as a kind of Chekov's gun. The syntactical delay between the introduction of Gunther and his name mirrors the narratoligical delay between his introduction and the part he plays in poem, beginning at line 441.}}
+|{{Comment| As Gunther is introduced to the reader first in line 15 but only in line 16 by name, so the parenthetical "quam postea narro" that indicates Gunther functions as the type of literary device (akin to foreshadowing) that is known as "Chekhov's gun." The syntactical delay between the introduction of Gunther and his name mirrors the narrative delay between his introduction and the part he plays in the poem, which begins at line 441.}}
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 |[[Namque]] [[marem]] [[genuit]], [[quem1|quem]] [[Guntharium]] [[vocitavit]].
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-|{{Comment|"Fama volans": It is a common trope of epic for "Fama" to act as herald of armies or war. The "volans" give the rumor a sense of urgency and desperation that often influences the decisions made, as it does here. It is even accompanied by "volans" in one form or another several times throughout the Aenead, 11.139-40, 3.121-22, and 8.554-55. Cf. line 170 in which "Fama" announces the rebellion of a certain recently conquered tribe; absent the "volans", that scene lacks the immediacy this does.
+|{{Comment|"Fama volans": In many epics "Fama" acts as herald of armies or war. The epithet "volans" give the rumor an urgency and desperation that often influences the decisions made, as happens here. "Fama" is even accompanied by "volans" in one form or another several times in the Aeneid, 11.139-40, 3.121-22, and 8.554-55. Cf. line 170 in which "Fama" announces the rebellion of a certain recently conquered tribe; absent the "volans", that scene lacks the immediacy that this one has.
 '''It appears to me that Fama is personified as a flying being because rumors travel so very quickly. [JJTY]'''}}
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-|{{Comment| "Hister": the Latin name for the Danube River, from the Greek ᾽´Ιστρος , both of which particularly referred to the lower Danube and the area around its mouth on the Black Sea. This reference to the Huns crossing the Danube inspiring fear in a Frankish king does not make geographical sense, but perhaps it is a case of metonymy for the unknown eastern regions in general.}}
+|{{Comment| "Hister": the Latin name for the Danube River, from the Greek ᾽´Ιστρος. Both words referred particularly to the lower Danube and the area around its mouth on the Black Sea. The assertion that the passage of the Huns across the Danube inspired fear in a Frankish king does not make geographical sense, but perhaps it is a case of metonymy for unknown regions even further to the east.}}
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 |[[Vincentem]] [[numero]] [[stellas]] [[atque]] [[amnis]] [[arenas]].
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 |{{Commentary|''Qui'': Gibicho
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-|{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 3.51-52.: . . .''cum iam diffideret armis/ Dardaniae cingique urbem obsidione videret''. ‘. . .When he now lost hope in the arms of Dardania and saw the city beleagured.’ 8.518: ''robora pubis''. . . ‘The choice flower of manhood. . .’
+|{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 3.51-52.: . . .''cum iam diffideret armis/ Dardaniae cingique urbem obsidione videret''. ‘. . .When he now lost hope in the arms of Dardania and saw the city beleagured.’ 8.518: ''robora pubis''. . . ‘The choice flower of manhood. . .’
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-|{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 11.234-235.: ''ergo concilium magnum primosque suorum/ imperio accitos alta intra limina cogit''. ‘Therefore his high council, the foremost of his people, he summons by royal command and convenes within his lofty portals.’ 11.303-304.: ''fuerat melius, non tempore tali/ cogere concilium. '' ‘It would have been better not to convene a council at such an hour.’
+|{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 11.234-235.: ''ergo concilium magnum primosque suorum/ imperio accitos alta intra limina cogit''. ‘Therefore his high council, the foremost of his people, he summons by royal command and convenes within his lofty portals.’ 11.303-304.: ''fuerat melius, non tempore tali/ cogere concilium. '' ‘It would have been better not to convene a council at such an hour.’
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 |{{Commentary|''Darent'': sc. ''Huni''
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-|{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 1.408-409.: ''cur dextrae iungere dextram/ non datur. . .?'' ‘Why am I not allowed to clasp hand in hand? 8.163-164: ''mihi mens iuvenali ardebat amore/ compellare virum et dextrae coniungere dextram. '' ‘My heart burned with youthful ardour to speak to him and clasp hand in hand.’
+|{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 1.408-409.: ''cur dextrae iungere dextram/ non datur. . .?'' ‘Why am I not allowed to clasp hand in hand? 8.163-164: ''mihi mens iuvenali ardebat amore/ compellare virum et dextrae coniungere dextram. '' ‘My heart burned with youthful ardour to speak to him and clasp hand in hand.’
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-|{{Comment|Similar to the note to the left; the Franks were forerunners of the Merovingians, who were said to be descended from Trojan stock. Hagan is not the only Frank said to descend from such ancient lineage, cf. 725-729, in which Gunther's warrior Werinhard is described as a descendant of the Trojan Pandarus.}}
+|{{Comment|[Similar to the note to the left.] The Franks were forerunners of the Merovingians, who were said to be descended from Trojan stock. Hagan is not the only Frank said to descend from such ancient lineage, since in 725-729 Gunther's warrior Werinhard is described as being a descendant of the Trojan Pandarus.}}
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 |[[hunc2|Hunc]], [[quia]] [[Guntharius]] [[nondum]] [[pervenit1|pervenit]] [[ad]] [[aevum1|aevum]],

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 |{{Comment|"Fama volans": It is a common trope of epic for "Fama" to act as herald of armies or war. The "volans" give the rumor a sense of urgency and desperation that often influences the decisions made, as it does here. It is even accompanied by "volans" in one form or another several times throughout the Aenead, 11.139-40, 3.121-22, and 8.554-55. Cf. line 170 in which "Fama" announces the rebellion of a certain recently conquered tribe; absent the "volans", that scene lacks the immediacy this does.
-It appears to me that Fama is personified as a flying being because rumors travel so very quickly. [JJTY]}}
+'''It appears to me that Fama is personified as a flying being because rumors travel so very quickly. [JJTY]'''}}
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 |[[Dicens]] [[hostilem]] [[cuneum]] [[transire]] [[per]] [[Hystrum]],

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-|{{Comment|"Fama volans": It is a common trope of epic for "Fama" to act as herald of armies or war. The "volans" give the rumor a sense of urgency and desperation that often influences the decisions made, as it does here. It is even accompanied by "volans" in one form or another several times throughout the Aenead, 11.139-40, 3.121-22, and 8.554-55. Cf. line 170 in which "Fama" announces the rebellion of a certain recently conquered tribe; absent the "volans", that scene lacks the immediacy this does.}}
+|{{Comment|"Fama volans": It is a common trope of epic for "Fama" to act as herald of armies or war. The "volans" give the rumor a sense of urgency and desperation that often influences the decisions made, as it does here. It is even accompanied by "volans" in one form or another several times throughout the Aenead, 11.139-40, 3.121-22, and 8.554-55. Cf. line 170 in which "Fama" announces the rebellion of a certain recently conquered tribe; absent the "volans", that scene lacks the immediacy this does.
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 |[[Dicens]] [[hostilem]] [[cuneum]] [[transire]] [[per]] [[Hystrum]],

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 |[[Concilium]] [[cogit]], [[quae3|quae]] [[sint]] [[facienda]], [[requirit]].