"Eisegan stefne" ("Christ and Satan" 36a) the "Visio Pauli" and "ferrea vox" ("Aeneid" 6.626)
Title:
"Eisegan stefne" ("Christ and Satan" 36a) the "Visio Pauli" and "ferrea vox" ("Aeneid" 6.626)
Author:
Hasenfratz, R.
Publication Info:
Modern Philology
Notes:
CCCC MS 41 On the use of ’eisegan stefne’ (with an iron voice or tongue) in Anglo-Saxon Homilies as in CCCC MS 41 in a homily on Hell in which the souls vomited out by dragons have ’eisegan stefne’. The article analyses the meaning of this phrase and notes that the term ’tongue of iron’ is found in the Visio Pauli and ultimately derives from a passage in the Aeneid. The context in which it is used in CCCC 41 corresponds quite closely to that in the Aeneid, pp. 399, 402