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''Vainglory'' is the title given to an Old English gnomic or homiletic poem of eighty-four lines, preserved in the Exeter Book. The precise date of composition is unknown, but the fact of its preservation in a late tenth-century manuscript gives us an approximate terminus ante quem. The poem is structured around a comparison of two basic opposites of human conduct; on the one hand, the proud man, who “is the devil's child, enwreathed in flesh” (''biþ feondes bearn / flæsce bifongen''), and, on the other hand, the virtuous man, characterised as "God’s own son" (''godes agen bearn''). ==External links== *(Old English text ), ''The Labyrinth. Resources for Medieval Studies''. *(Sacred Texts - Vainglory ), ''Sacred Texts - The Exeter Book'' *(''The Literary Encyclopedia'' ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vainglory (poem)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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