"In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu sees this apparently legendary or fictional corpus as an alternative form of history-writing that actively meditates on its own relationship to historicity and fictionality while doing sophisticated (and often subversive) …
"In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu sees this apparently legendary or fictional corpus as an alternative form of history-writing that actively meditates on its own relationship to historicity and fictionality while doing sophisticated (and often subversive) …
In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Maldon, and the Waltharius as participating in alternative modes of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms, including Latinate Christian history and the biblical epi…