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Borges the Unacknowledged Medievalist

Old English and Old Norse in His Life and Work
By:M. Toswell
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137451293
eText ISBN:9781137444479
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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The Argentinian writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) was many things during his life, but what has gone largely unnoticed is that he was a medievalist, and his interest in Germanic medievalism was pervasive throughout his work. This study will consider the medieval elements in Borges creative work and shed new light on his poetry.