caa a22 4500 463200276 CHVBK 20180405153110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070701xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11061-006-9014-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11061-006-9014-z Drout Michael Wheaton College, 02766-2322, Norton, MA, USA aut "The Partridge” is a phoenix: revising the Exeter Book Physiologus [Elektronische Daten] [Michael Drout] The poem about a bird on folios 97v to 98r of the Exeter Book that has been traditionally called "The Partridge” is unlikely to be about that particular bird and more likely to be about the phoenix. The case for the phoenix is supported by the structure of the Anglo-Saxon Physiologus as a whole, with the "The Panther” representing Christ, or Christ's death, "The Whale,” the devil or the descent into hell, and the bird poem, Christ's or man's resurrection. The appearance of a marvelous odor in the other two Physiologus poems suggests that such an odor would have appeared in the third, also supporting the phoenix as the identity of the bird. If the lines on 97v and 98r are indeed part of the same poem, the presence of the words hweorfan and cyrran in the homiletic passage also supports the link with the phoenix. The use of animal exempla for didactic purposes also links the Physiologus poems to other poems in the Exeter Book (such as the riddles) and to the cultural concerns of the 10th-century Benedictine Reform. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2007 Anglo-Saxon nationallicence Physiologus nationallicence Exeter Book nationallicence Partridge nationallicence Charadrius nationallicence Benedictine reform nationallicence Phoenix nationallicence Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 487-503 0028-2677 91:3<487 2007 91 11061 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9014-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9014-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Drout Michael Wheaton College, 02766-2322, Norton, MA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Neophilologus Kluwer Academic Publishers 91/3(2007-07-01), 487-503 0028-2677 91:3<487 2007 91 11061 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer