"Cynewulf and Cyneheard": a woman screams. (feminist reading of a tale from the 9th century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)

Philological Quarterly | March 22, 1997| | Copyright

The presence of the woman is not to be overlooked.

Sigmund Freud

"Cynewulf and Cyneheard" is the entry for 755/757 in The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a historical record compiled during the reign of King Alfred (871-899 C.E.).(1) The 755/757 annal has attracted generations of scholars from several disciplines: political and social historians because it may shed some light on the theoretical movement from kinship to comitatus loyalty; linguists because it may contain a rare example of direct speech; and literary critics because it is an unusually engaging ...

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