Boar motives on Ambrym island

See my Art-blog on the Ambrym Island Slit-drum
http://gafpa.blogspot.com/2012/01/besette-swin-licum.html





Communicating by Tam Tam [=Atingting Kon] At 3:46
Old man with boar-tusks at 3:59

Boar-shields on Etruscan vase

Shields with boar-motives on Etruscan Tragliatella vase

http://books.google.nl/books?id=Jq78Ff2TYHAC&pg=PA147&lpg=PA147&dq=tragliatella+boar&source=bl&ots=6m36sGuSKB&sig=elO_k777l5YIIbTgH1inV77_6J8&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=S0xiT-uTG9DpOcmnhIMI&ved=0CFsQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=tragliatella%20boar&f=false

Literature

sutton hoo motives

So!

It came at last, this codex of codices

word-wondrous and winding, hiding

still self-contained secrets pointing at

enigmatic mores, murder, past

from the distant dark dream-time ...

Today I got my Electronic Beowulf, which really made time stand still. It was the same kind of feeling as when I found that second-hand Klaeber, way back in the eighties.

Nobody had heard of Kiernan in those days, which is really astonishing. What puzzled me though, while still believing in an early date, was the fact that somebody around the year 1000 AD deliberately spent a substantial amount of vellum on this text.

I vaguely remember seeing the MS in the British museum and me reading it aloud.

I remember my teacher of Old-English having a facsimile - a Zupitza reprint I believe - which seemed totally out of reach for me.

That was nearly thirty years ago.

Today I found this e-version.

http://www.archive.org/stream/beowulfautotypes77zupiuoft

fights = tial by combat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_combat

The first two fights show the characteristics of a trial by combat.

Two autographs

If scribe B uses older lettering [Kiernan, Revisions],
if Part II is an older codex or autograph,
then that might explain the absence of the word Scylding and its likes in part two.
It might account for its less intricate, almost self-contained character.
So I started re-reading from l.2200 ff...