Guthlac poems

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The Guthlac poems are a pair of Old English religious poems that recount the life, spiritual struggles, and death of the Anglo-Saxon hermit-saint Guthlac of Crowland.

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instanceOf Anglo-Saxon literature
Old English poem
hagiographical poem
religious poem
associatedWith Exeter Cathedral Library NERFINISHED
basedOn Latin life of Saint Guthlac by Felix NERFINISHED
Vita Sancti Guthlaci NERFINISHED
containsCharacter Guthlac NERFINISHED
Guthlac’s sister Pega NERFINISHED
angels
demons
countryOfOrigin Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons NERFINISHED
depicts death of Saint Guthlac
life of Saint Guthlac
spiritual struggles of Saint Guthlac
genre hagiography
religious poetry
hasPart Guthlac A NERFINISHED
Guthlac B NERFINISHED
language Old English
literaryForm narrative poem
literaryLanguage West Saxon dialect (standardized form)
literaryTradition Old English religious verse
mainSubject Guthlac of Crowland NERFINISHED
Guthlac’s final illness
Guthlac’s withdrawal to the hermitage
death of Guthlac
early life of Guthlac
manuscript Exeter Book NERFINISHED
meter alliterative verse
period Anglo-Saxon period
religiousTradition Christianity
saintDepicted Guthlac of Crowland NERFINISHED
setting Crowland NERFINISHED
studiedIn Old English studies
hagiographical studies
medieval English literature
theme asceticism
divine grace
hermitic life
salvation
spiritual warfare
temptation by demons
timeOfComposition early Middle Ages

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