Christ III | |
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Also known as | Christ C |
Author(s) | Anonymous |
Language | Old English |
Series | Old English Christ triad, along with Christ I and Christ II, constituting lines 867–1664 |
Manuscript(s) | Exeter Book, fos. 20b–32a |
Genre | Religious poem |
Subject | Last Judgment |
Christ III is an anonymous Old English religious poem which forms the last part of Christ, a poetic triad found at the beginning of the Exeter Book. Christ III is found on fols. 20b–32a and constitutes lines 867–1664 of Christ in Krapp and Dobbie's Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records edition. The poem is concerned with the Second Coming of Christ (parousia) and the Last Judgment.
Sample
This passage, about fire engulfing the world at Judgement Day, gives a modern English translation of Christ III, lines 993–1013 (in the line-numbering of the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records):
Seoþeð swearta leg synne on fordonum, |
The black flame will seethe sins among the corrupted, |
Other Old English eschatological poems
- Blickling Homily nos. 7 and 10
- Judgement Day I
- Judgement Day II
Editions and translations
- Krapp, George Philip, and Dobbie, E. V. K. (eds.) (1936) The Exeter Book. (The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records; 3.) New York: Columbia U. P.
- Bradley, S. A. J. (tr.) (1982) Anglo-Saxon Poetry: an anthology of Old English poems in prose translation. London: Dent
References
- ↑ The Exeter Book, ed. by George Philip Krapp and Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie, The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records: A Collective Edition, 3 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1936).
External links
- Apocalyptic Ideas in Old English Literature
- The Old English poems, Christ I-III
- A Modern English translation (PDF), by Charles W. Kennedy. From "In Parentheses".