English Literary History (OME)

How many OE codices have reached our days?

• 3

• 2

• 5

• 4

The major poetic codices of the Old English period are:

• the Beowulf manuscript; the Junius or Bodlean manuscript; Genesis and Exodus.

• the Beowulf manuscript; the Junius or Bodlean manuscript; the Vercelli manuscript and the Exeter manuscript.

• the Junius or Bodlean manuscript; the Exeter manuscript; the Vercelli manuscript and the Dream of the Rood.

It is rather difficult to date the Old English manuscripts …

• because there are very many variations in subject and style of the works.

• because written many years before hey were copied, these books give little solid evidence for dating them

• because most of them are written in runes and are accessible to the modern reader mostly trough translations and paraphrases

All known Old English poems observe the principles of …

• iambic pentameter

• blank verse

• alliterative verse

Choose incorrect statement.

The Canterbury Tales …

• is a poem written in iambic pentameter.

• is unfinished

• should have included 120 tales, according to the original plan

• was originally written in Latin and translated into English by Chaucer