Waltharius34 - Revision history

Andrew Parchman at 05:16, 16 December 2009

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Jan Ziolkowski at 23:50, 14 December 2009

2009-12-14T23:50:40Z

Jan Ziolkowski at 18:13, 14 December 2009

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Andrew Parchman at 02:40, 12 December 2009

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Andrew Parchman at 02:31, 12 December 2009

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Andrew Parchman at 01:58, 12 December 2009

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Andrew Parchman at 01:49, 12 December 2009

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Andrew Parchman at 09:35, 1 December 2009

2009-12-01T09:35:05Z

Andrew Parchman at 09:31, 1 December 2009

2009-12-01T09:31:24Z

Andrew Parchman at 09:30, 1 December 2009

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-|{{Comment|"sceptris": synecdoche for king or ruler. [metonymy JZ]}}
+|{{Comment|"sceptris": metonymy for king or ruler. }}
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 |[[Cuius]] [[primatum]] [[Heriricus]] [[forte]] [[gerebat]].

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-|{{Comment| The Franks surrender to the Huns has set off a domino effect. The Aquitanian king Alphere uses similar reasoning to justify he surrender to Attila.}}
+|{{Comment| The surrender of the Franks to the Huns has set off a domino effect. The Aquitanian king Alphere uses similar reasoning to justify his surrender to Attila.}}
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 |[[Cessit]] [[Pannoniae]], [[qua1|qua]] [[nos]] [[virtute]] [[putatis]]
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-|{{Comment|"ductor": a favorite word of Vergil's, used it more than 20 times throughout the Aeneid.}}
+|{{Comment|"ductor": a favorite word of Vergil's, used more than twenty times throughout the Aeneid.}}
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 |[[ut1|Ut]] [[solitus]] [[fuerat]], [[blande]] [[suscepit]] [[et]] [[inquit]]:
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-|{{Comment|Attila's civilized and reasonable nature are again emphasized}}
+|{{Comment|Attila's civilized and reasonable nature is again emphasized}}
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 |[[Foedera]] [[plus2|plus]] [[cupio]] [[quam]] [[proelia]] [[mittere]] [[vulgo1|vulgo]].
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-|{{Comment|Note how the meter of the heavily spondaic line (5 spondees) reflects the meaning. Hereric, weighed down by all the treasure he is carrying, slowly, spondaicly proceeds.}}
+|{{Comment|Note how the meter of the heavily spondaic line (5 spondees) reflects the meaning, as Hereric, weighed down by all the treasure he carries, proceeds slowly.}}
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 |[[Thesauros]] [[pactumque]] [[ferit]] [[natamque]] [[reliquit]].

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 |{{Commentary|''Tempore quo'' equiv. to ''eo tempore''<br />''Steterat'': The poet, perhaps due to his German origins, makes very free use of the tenses of the Latin verb. Pluperfect forms in particular are often used as a simple past tense.<br />''Burgundia'': A Germanic kingdom conquered by the Huns in 437 A.D. (as related in both the ''Waltharius'' and the ''Nibelungenlied''), after which its people reestablished themselves in the south-eastern quadrant of present-day France, before being conquered by the Franks in the following century.
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-|{{Parallel|''Aeineid'' 9.80: ''tempore quo''. . . ‘In the days when. . .’
+|{{Parallel|''Aeneid'' 9.80: ''tempore quo''. . . ‘In the days when. . .’
 }}
 |{{Pictures|[[Image:Europe500.png|center|thumb]]}}
 |{{Meter|scansion=DDDSDS}}
-|{{Comment|"sceptris": synecdoche for king or ruler.}}
+|{{Comment|"sceptris": synecdoche for king or ruler. [metonymy JZ]}}
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 |[[Cuius]] [[primatum]] [[Heriricus]] [[forte]] [[gerebat]].
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 |{{Meter|scansion=DSSDDS|elision=namque Avares}}
-|{{Comment| "Avares": the use of the term Avars for Huns could be further evidence of the poet's misconceptions about who the Huns actually were and the length of reign, but he very well could be picking up on the epic and Virgilian poetic license of using different names for the same people.}}
+|{{Comment| "Avares": the use of the term Avars for Huns could offer further evidence of the poet's misconceptions about both the identity of the Huns and the length of their reign, but he could very well be taking advantage of the poetic license in epic (especially Virgilian epic) to use different names for the same people.}}
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 |[[Suspendunt]] [[a]] [[fine1|fine]] [[quidem]] [[regionis]] [[eorum]].
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-|{{Comment|"ductor": a favorite of Vergil's, he used it over 20 times throughout the Aeneid.}}
+|{{Comment|"ductor": a favorite word of Vergil's, used it more than 20 times throughout the Aeneid.}}
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 |[[ut1|Ut]] [[solitus]] [[fuerat]], [[blande]] [[suscepit]] [[et]] [[inquit]]:

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 |{{Meter|scansion=SSSDDS}}
+|{{Comment| The Franks surrender to the Huns has set off a domino effect. The Aquitanian king Alphere uses similar reasoning to justify he surrender to Attila.}}
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 |[[Cessit]] [[Pannoniae]], [[qua1|qua]] [[nos]] [[virtute]] [[putatis]]

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 |{{Pictures|[[Image:Europe500.png|center|thumb]]}}
 |{{Meter|scansion=DSSDDS|elision=namque Avares}}
-|{{Comment| "Avares": the use of the term Avars for Huns could be further evidence of the poet's misconceptions about who the Huns actually were, the length of reign, cf. 10, etc..., or it could be poetic license, but I think not.}}
+|{{Comment| "Avares": the use of the term Avars for Huns could be further evidence of the poet's misconceptions about who the Huns actually were and the length of reign, but he very well could be picking up on the epic and Virgilian poetic license of using different names for the same people.}}
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 |[[Suspendunt]] [[a]] [[fine1|fine]] [[quidem]] [[regionis]] [[eorum]].

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 |{{Meter|scansion=DDSSDS}}
+|{{Comment|Attila's civilized and reasonable nature are again emphasized}}
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 |[[Foedera]] [[plus2|plus]] [[cupio]] [[quam]] [[proelia]] [[mittere]] [[vulgo1|vulgo]].
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-|{{Comment|Cf. 8.}}
+|{{Comment|The Virgilian and Roman characteristics of line 8 are once again echoed as Attila accepts Hereric's terms of surrender.}}
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 |[[Pace]] [[quidem]] [[Huni]] [[malunt]] [[regnare]], [[sed1|sed]] [[armis]]