LINGUO-CULTUROLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF CARDINAL POINT DESIGNATIONS IN THE OLD ENGLISH POEM "BEOWULF"
Polyakova Elena Aleksandrovna
Ivanovo State University
Abstract. The article examines cardinal point designations in the Old English poem "Beowulf". The study is conducted using contextual and etymological analysis methods. The author identifies the role and place of such names in the story of the poem and their relation with other narration elements. The paper concludes that the Old English name semantics represents both Christian and Old Germanic mythological conceptions of cardinal points.
Key words and phrases: контекстуальный анализ, лингвокультурология, историческая семасиология, древнеанглийская поэзия, contextual analysis, linguo-culturology, historical semasiology, Old English poetry
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