Beowulf And The North Before The Vikings

Author : T. A. Shippey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641899338
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beowulf and the North Before the Vikings written by T. A. Shippey and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Tolkien's famous lecture in 1936, it has been generally accepted that the poem Beowulf is a fantasy, and of no use as a witness to real history. This book challenges that view, and argues that the poem provides a plausible, detailed, and consistent vision of pre-Viking history which is most unlikely to have been the poet's invention, and which has moreover received strong corroboration from archaeology in recent years. Using the poem as a starting point, historical, archaeological, and legendary sources are combined to form a picture of events in the North in the fifth and sixth centuries: at once a Dark and a Heroic Age, and the time of the formation of nations. Among other things, this helps answer two long-unasked questions: why did the Vikings come as such a shock? And what caused the previous 250 years of security from raiders from the sea?

Author : R. T. Farrell
Publisher : London : Viking Society for Northern Research, University College, London
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beowulf, Swedes, and Geats written by R. T. Farrell and published by London : Viking Society for Northern Research, University College, London. This book was released on 1972 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph St. John
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040077668
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry written by Joseph St. John and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative. The book explores how the Genesis poems resort to the Christian exegetical tradition and draw on secular social norms to deliver their biblically derived and related narratives in a manner relevant to their Christian Anglo-Saxon audiences. In this book it is suggested that these elements work in unison, and that the two Genesis poems function coherently in the context of the Junius 11 manuscript. Moreover, the book explores recourse to Genesis-derived myth in Beowulf, and points to important similarities between this text and the Genesis poems. It is therefore shown that while Beowulf differs from the Genesis poems in several respects, it belongs in a corpus where religious verse enjoys prominence.

Author : Leonard Neidorf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781961361140
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beowulf Translation and Commentary (Expanded Edition) written by Leonard Neidorf and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beowulf, composed around 700 A.D., is the first great epic poem in the English language. It tells the timeless story of a hero's fight against monsters and sets it against a complex background of political intrigue and tribal warfare. Situated in sixth-century Scandinavia, the poem brings to life a magnificent world that fuses history with fantasy. Tom Shippey's new translation of Beowulf, reflecting a lifetime of engagement with the poem, makes its story clearer and more compelling than it has ever been. The original Old English text of Beowulf is included along with an extensive and innovative commentary, which guides the reader passage-by-passage through the poem and its criticism. In addition to the text, translation, and commentary, this volume contains an extensive bibliography, a translator's preface, and an appended essay by Tom Shippey on "Tolkien and Beowulf-A Lifelong Involvement." The 2nd edition (revised and expanded) adds new texts and translations (by Tom Shippey) of Waldere, the Hildebrandslied, and the Fight at Finnsburg.

Author : Richard North
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000110990
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures written by Richard North and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures provides a scholarly and accessible introduction to the literature which was the inspiration for many of the heroes of modern popular culture, from The Lord of the Rings to The Chronicles of Narnia, and which set the foundations of the English language and its literature as we know it today. Edited, translated and annotated by the editors of Beowulf and Other Stories, the anthology introduces readers to the rich and varied literature of Britain, Scandinavia and France of the period in and around the Viking Age. Ranging from the Old English epic Beowulf through to the Anglo-Norman texts which heralded the transition Middle English, thematically organised chapters present elegies, eulogies, laments and followed by material on the Viking Wars in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Vikings gods and Icelandic sagas, and a final chapter on early chivalry introduces the new themes and forms which led to Middle English literature, including Arthurian Romances and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Laying out in parallel text format selections from the most important Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman works, this anthology presents translated and annotated texts with useful bibliographic references, prefaced by a headnote providing useful background and explanation.

Author : Richard North
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199206619
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Beowulf written by Richard North and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Origins of Beowulf' suggests that the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf was composed in the winter of 826-7 as a requiem for King Beornwulf of Mercia on behalf of Wiglaf, the ealdorman who succeeded him. This study combines detective work with literary analysis to form a case that no future investigation will be able to ignore.

Author : John Mitchell Kemble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf, The Travellers [Widsið], and The Battle of Finnesburh written by John Mitchell Kemble and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Viking Club, or Society for Northern Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Year Book of the Viking Club, Society for Northern Research written by Viking Club, or Society for Northern Research and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Viking Society for Northern Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research written by Viking Society for Northern Research and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 3, 5.

Author : Robert T. Farrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beowulf, Swedes, and Geats written by Robert T. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: