Cargando…

The Nordic Beowulf /

In such a wide-ranging, long-standing, and international field of scholarship as Beowulf, one might imagine that everything would long since have been thoroughly investigated. And yet as far as the absolutely crucial question of the poem's origins is concerned, that is not the case. This cross-...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gräslund, Bo (Autor)
Otros Autores: Naylor, Martin (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leeds : ARC Humanities Press, [2022]
Colección:Medieval Media Cultures
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACES
  • Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 2 THE ORIGINS OF THE POEM
  • Chapter 3 SOME UNPROVEN PREMISES
  • Chapter 4 DATING OF THE POEM
  • Chapter 5 ARCHAEOLOGICAL DELIMINATION
  • Chapter 6 RESULTS OF PRIMARY ANALYSIS, STEP 1
  • Chapter 7 THE NAME GEATAS
  • Chapter 8 OTHER LINKS TO EASTERN SWEDEN
  • Chapter 9 ELEMENTS OF NON-CHRISTIAN THINKING
  • Chapter 10 POETRY IN SCANDINAVIA
  • Chapter 11 THE ORAL STRUCTURE OF THE POEM
  • Chapter 12 RESULTS OF PRIMARY ANALYSIS, STEP 2
  • Chapter 13 GOTLAND
  • Chapter 14 HEOROT
  • Chapter 15 SWEDES AND GUTES
  • Chapter 16 THE HORSEMEN AROUND BEOWULF'S GRAVE
  • Chapter 17 SOME LINGUISTIC DETAILS
  • Chapter 18 FROM SCANDINAVIA TO ENGLAND
  • Chapter 19 TRANSMISSION AND WRITING DOWN IN ENGLAND
  • Chapter 20 ALLEGORICAL REPRESENTATION
  • Chapter 21 BEOWULF AND GUTA SAGA
  • Chapter 22 CHRONOLOGY
  • Chapter 23 RETROSPECTIVE SUMMARY
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY