The Nordic Beowulf
by Gräslund, Bo
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-disciplinary study by Bo Gräslund argues that the material, geographical, historical, social, and ideological framework of Beowulf cannot be the independent literary product of an Old English Christian po…
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- Full title :The Nordic Beowulf / Bo Graslund ; translated by Martin Naylor.
Summary
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-disciplinary study by Bo Gräslund argues that the material, geographical, historical, social, and ideological framework of Beowulf cannot be the independent literary product of an Old English Christian poet, but was in all essentials created orally in Scandinavia, which was a fertile seedbed for epic poetry. Through meticulous argument interwoven with an impressive assemblage of data, archaeological and otherwise, Gräslund offers possible answers to the questions of the provenance of the Geats, the location of Heorot, and many more, such as the significance of Sutton Hoo and the signification of the Grendel kin and dragon in the sixth century when the events of the poem, coinciding with cataclysmic events in northern Europe, took place.
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- Publication Date:2022
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Arc Humanities Press
- Place of Publication:Leeds
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2022
Notes
Translated from the Swedish.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource : : illustrations (black and white)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1802700234, 9781802700237
- oclc:on1313071889
- LC Classification:PR1586
- Dewey Decimal:829/.3
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