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Aelfric
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Ael·fric  (lfrk) Also called "Grammaticus." 955?-1020?
Anglo-Saxon abbot who is considered the greatest Old English prose writer. His works include Catholic Homilies, Lives of the Saints, and a Latin grammar.


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His novel Saturday (2005) emphasizes the talent of the young, newly-published poet Daisy Perowne rather than the established fame of her grandfather and mentor, John Grammaticus.
SHIFTING PARADIGMS Through the eight centuries from Saxo Grammaticus Gesta Danorum until the latest major national history synthesis, popularly named the Poli-Gylde, Polifken & Gyldendal's Danmarkshistorie (1992-1993, new edition 2002), runs a straight line of tradition of national history writing in Denmark.
Waking" 249) And finally, in a neat reversal of ancient swords acquired from burial mounds, the early thirteenth-century Danish scholar Saxo Grammaticus (one of those medieval sources that Shippey says Tolkien knew "better than most of their editors" [Road, xi]), relates several episodes where treasured blades are hidden in the ground by aged kings in order to deny their use to others (Grammaticus I, Bk 4, p 108, and Bk 7, p 220).
 
 
 
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