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Boethius's work is prosimetrical, alternating between prose and verse, and one of the two surviving manuscripts of the Old English translation renders the poems as Old English alliterative verse: these verse translations are known as the Metres of Boethius. The translation is attributed in one manuscript to King Alfred (r. 870–899), and this ...
Shippey says that Tolkien knew well the translation of Boethius that was made by King Alfred and he quotes some "Boethian" remarks from Frodo, Treebeard, and Elrond. [19] Miniatures of Boethius teaching and in prison from a 1385 Italian manuscript
A literal translation into English of the earliest known book of fowling and fishing (1492). Written Originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in the Year 1492. Translated by Alfred Denison. [383] Beothius. Boethius, known as Anicius Manlius Severinus Boëthius (c. 477 – 524), was a Roman senator and philosopher.
Alfred is said to be the author of some of the metrical prefaces to the Old English translations of Gregory's Pastoral Care and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. Alfred is also thought to be the author of 50 metrical psalms, but whether the poems were written by him, under his direction or patronage, or as a general part in his reform ...
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, [6] ... in Boethius' Latin translation. Boethius's best known work is ... Old English by King Alfred and later into English ...
Alfred meant the translation to be used, and circulated it to all his bishops. [147] Interest in Alfred's translation of Pastoral Care was so enduring that copies were still being made in the 11th century. [148] Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy was the most popular philosophical handbook of the Middle Ages.
A prose translation of The Miroir or Glasse of the Synneful Soul from the French, made in 1544 by the Princess (afterwards Queen) Elizabeth, then eleven years of age. Reprodued in facsimile, with portrait, for the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, and edited, with an introduction and notes, by Percy W. Ames (1853–1919).
Middle High German: Amelunge, Old Norse: Aumlungar, Old English: Amulinga in Alfred the Great's translation of Boethius. [1] The Gothic Amal dynasty, to which Theodoric the Great and Ermanaric belonged. Name probably derived from Gothic *amals (bravery, vigor). [1] The medieval versions add the suffix -ung indicating "belonging to". [2]