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AuthorMajor, Tristan
Available date2021-06-24T06:47:11Z
Publication Date2016
Publication NameNeophilologus
ResourceScopus
ISSN282677
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11061-015-9450-8
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/20856
AbstractThis paper reviews and assesses past scholarship on the so-called vasa mortis riddle of the Old English poem Solomon and Saturn II (lines 75-103) before proposing its own solution. It examines the trajectory of the scholarly literature that initially attempts to identify the vasa mortis as an exact answer to a riddle, but more recently aims to free the riddle from any specific solution in order to interpret it more broadly. This paper's own solution to the riddle is that the vasa mortis is to be understood as the thing that will destroy the Philistines at Doomsday. This solution is reached through analogies in the Old English passage and accounts of the traditional etymology of the Philistines, as well as biblical and patristic descriptions of eschatological demons. 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
Languageen
PublisherSpringer Netherlands
SubjectBible
Demons
Eschatology
Josephus
Old English
Philistines
Riddles
Solomon and Saturn II
Vasa mortis
TitlePhilistine Doomsday and the Vasa Mortis of Solomon and Saturn II
TypeArticle
Pagination143-160
Issue Number1
Volume Number100
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