The Nordic Beowulf
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The Nordic Beowulf

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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The Nordic Beowulf

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Prefaces
  5. Chapter 1. Introduction
  6. Chapter 2. The Origins of the Poem
  7. Chapter 3. Some Unproven Premises
  8. Chapter 4. Dating of the Poem
  9. Chapter 5. Archaeological Delimination
  10. Chapter 6. Results of Primary Analysis, Step 1
  11. Chapter 7. The Name Geatas
  12. Chapter 8. Other Links to Eastern Sweden
  13. Chapter 9. Elements of Non-Christian Thinking
  14. Chapter 10. Poetry in Scandinavia
  15. Chapter 11. The Oral Structure of the Poem
  16. Chapter 12. Results of Primary Analysis, Step 2
  17. Chapter 13. Gotland
  18. Chapter 14. Heorot
  19. Chapter 15. Swedes and Gutes
  20. Chapter 16. The Horsemen around Beowulf’s Grave
  21. Chapter 17. Some Linguistic Details
  22. Chapter 18. From Scandinavia to England
  23. Chapter 19. Transmission and Writing Down in England
  24. Chapter 20. Allegorical Representation
  25. Chapter 21. Beowulf and Guta saga
  26. Chapter 22. Chronology
  27. Chapter 23. Retrospective Summary
  28. Bibliography

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