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    The Old English Physiologus
    The Old English Physiologus
    The Old English Physiologus
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    The Old English Physiologus

    By Albert S. (Albert Stanburrough) Cook, James Hall Pitman and Cynewulf

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Old English Physiologus - Albert S. (Albert Stanburrough) Cook

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Old English Physiologus, by Albert S. Cook

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      Title: The Old English Physiologus

      Author: Albert S. Cook

      Release Date: December 30, 2004 [EBook #14529]

      Language: English and Old English

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      The

      Old English Physiologus

      Text and Prose Translation

      by

      Albert Stanburrough Cook

      Professor of the English Language and Literature in Yale University

      Verse Translation

      by

      James Hall Pitman

      Fellow in English of Yale University

      New Haven: Yale University Press

      London: Humphrey Milford

      Oxford University Press

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      Preface

      The Old English Physiologus, or Bestiary, is a series of three brief poems, dealing with the mythical traits of a land-animal, a sea-beast, and a bird respectively, and deducing from them certain moral or religious lessons. These three creatures are selected from a much larger number treated in a work of the same name which was compiled at Alexandria before 140 B. C., originally in Greek, and afterwards translated into a variety of languages—into Latin before 431. The standard form of the Physiologus has 49 chapters, each dealing with a separate animal (sometimes imaginary) or other natural object, beginning with the lion, and ending with the ostrich; examples of these are the pelican, the eagle, the phoenix, the ant (cf. Prov. 6.6), the fox, the unicorn, and the salamander. In this standard text, the Old English poems are represented by chapters 16, 17, and 18, dealing in succession with the panther, a mythical sea-monster called the asp-turtle (usually denominated the whale), and the partridge. Of these three poems, the third is so fragmentary that little is left except eight lines of religious application, and four of exhortation by the poet, so that the outline of the poem, and especially the part descriptive of the partridge, must be conjecturally restored by reference to the treatment in the fuller versions, which are based upon Jer. 17. 11 (the texts drawn upon for

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