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Representing beasts in early Medieval England and Scandinavia /
Essays on the depiction of animals, birds and insects in early medieval material culture, from texts to carvings to the landscape itself.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK :
Boydell Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Anglo-Saxon studies ;
29. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Between myth and reality: hunter and prey in early Anglo-Saxon art / Noël Adams
- (Swinger of) the serpent of wounds': swords and snakes in the Viking mind / Sue Brunning
- Wreoþenhilt ond wyrmfah: confronting serpents in Beowulf and beyond / Victoria Symons
- The ravens on the Lejre Throne: avian identifiers, Odin at home, farm ravens / Marijane Osborn
- Beowulf's blithe-hearted raven / Eric Lacey
- Do Anglo-Saxons dream of exotic sheep? / László Sándor Chardonnens
- You sexy beast: the pig in a villa in Vandalic North Africa, and boar-cults in Old Germanic heathendom / Richard North
- 'For the sake of bravado in the wilderness': confronting the bestial in Anglo-Saxon warfare / Thomas J.T. Williams
- Where the wild things are in Old English poetry / Michael D.J. Bintley
- Entomological etymologies: creepy-crawlies in English place-names / John Baker
- Beasts, birds and other creatures in pre-Conquest charters and place-names in England / Delia Hooke.