Deor
Anglo Saxon · mortal · heroic age · mortal
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: Heorrenda
- sang of: Wayland the Smith
- sang of: Beadohild
Sources
- Reference treatments of Deor and of Heorrenda.