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Wittenwiler's "Ring" and the Anonymous Scots Poem "Colkelbie Sow": Two Comic-Didactic Works from the Fifteenth Century

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George Fenwick Jones
1956
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
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Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-didactic and religious allegory that documents late medieval views on many aspects of literature, history, law and religion. Besides his translation of Ring, Jones adds an exposition on the text as well as a translation of the Middle Scots poem Colkelbie Sow with a comparative analysis of the two works.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Half-Title Page

pp. i

Series Page

pp. ii

Figures

pp. iii-iv

Title Page

pp. v

Copyright

pp. vi

Table of Contents

pp. vii-viii

Foreword to the Ring Translation

pp. ix-xii

Preface

pp. xiv

Part One — The Courtship

pp. 1-34

Part Two — The Wedding

pp. 35-86

Part Three — The Conflict

pp. 87-191

Appendix I—Controversial Points

pp. 192-195

Appendix II—Quotations from and Allusions to Scripture

pp. 196-196

Appendix III—Bibliography

pp. 197-199

Appendix IV—Index and Name-list

pp. 200-205

“Colkelbie Sow”

pp. 207-246
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