Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Wiglaf's rise to dear kinship: the midwifery of battle
  • Revenge and the remaking of group identity in Beowulf: the cases of Hengest, Ingeld, and Eadgils
  • Violence, law and kingship in the annals of West Saxon feud: the contests of Cyneheard (755) and Aethelwold (901, 905)
  • The Battle of Brunanburh and the construction of mythological lordship
  • Triumphant lordship and new retainership in The Battle of Maldon.