The Non-Narrative Structure of “The Wife's Lament”

Böker, Uwe

doi:10.1075/z.14.34bok

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“…4 The narrative part of this story is concentrated in the first half of The Wife's Lament. 5 Underpinning the mystery here is a highly ambiguous syntax, 6 in which the temporal adverbs and conjunctions, as aids to establishing a chronology, are particularly important. At first there is little difficulty.…”

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Radegund and Amalfrid in The Wife’s Lament

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2021

Anglo-Saxon England

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Who is the woman in The Wife’s Lament? This essay makes her out to be St Radegund (c. 520–587), deaconess of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers. Reevaluating the narrative syntax mainly of the first half of this poem, the argument finds not the one man conventionally taken to be the woman’s lover or husband in this poem, but four male subjects there whose actions fit the stories of Radegund’s cousin Amalfrid, her husband Clothar, her unnamed but murdered brother, and lastly Lord Jesus. The poet’s main sources are argued to be the two Vitae of St Radegund and the poems of Venantius Fortunatus (c. 530–c. 609), mostly his (and possibly also her) lament De excidio Thoringiae (c. 568). The essay finally claims that The Wife’s Lament is related to the winileodos banned by Charlemagne in 789, and that it was composed in this period as an elegiac riddle for St Radegund.

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Radegund and Amalfrid in The Wife’s Lament

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