which often characterizes poetry of the middle ages, this imagery can be surprisingly modern.Brigit Pegeen Kelly, for example, uses this imagery in her translation of this Anglo-Saxon maxim:
Frost must freeze, fire melt wood,
earth bear fruit, ice build bridges,
and, most wonderful, water put on a glass helmet
to protect the earth's sprouts.
from Bookslut: The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation edited by Greg Delanty and Michael Matto
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