Deor
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · Recorded classification
THE FOURTH FRAMING NARRATOR THIS PROGRAMME HAS FOUND MISSING IN FOUR LANES — after Sanjaya in lane 17, Oisín in lane 18 and Cynon in lane 19. Deor is the only one of the four who is also the subject of his poem. The corpus held three of the figures he sings about and not the singer.
Domains
- poetry
Relations
- supplanted by: HeorrendaIn-batch.Reference treatment: Deor was displaced and sent wandering by Heorrenda, a more skilful poet. (secondary)
- sang of: Wayland the SmithNon-symmetric toward a pre-existing record. THE CORPUS ALREADY HELD WAYLAND, BEADOHILD AND NITHHAD — the cast of Deor's first two stanzas — AND NOT THE MAN SINGING THEM.Reference treatment: Deor recounts the sufferings of characters of Germanic tradition, among them Weland. (secondary)
- sang of: BeadohildNon-symmetric.Reference treatment: Deor's second stanza is Beadohild's grief. (secondary)
Sources
- Deor is the displaced scop of the Old English poem that bears his name, who recites others' misfortunes and their ending as consolation for his own.: Reference treatments of Deor and of Heorrenda. (secondary)