[PDF.57ip] The Origins of Beowulf: and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia

The Origins of Beowulf: and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia

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 | #1330839 in Books |  BOYE6 |  1994-12-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.43 x6.14l,.71 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent Monograph|By Jose Miguel Fernandez-Bacquero|This book is easily one of the best monographs written about Beowulf in recent decades. It is a work of serious and sober scholarship, infused with just the right amount of imagination to breathe life into the fragmentary evidence. Of all attempts to date and localize the composition of Beowulf, this is perhaps the most pers| |A thoroughly plausible scenario for the poet's interest in affairs long ago and far away. --Times Literary Supplement

Useful survey of work on the manuscript, language, metrics, archaeology (Especially East Anglian ship burials), and, in particular,

Where did Beowulf, unique and thrilling example of an Old English epic poem come from? In whose hall did the poem's maker first tell the tale? The poem exists now in just one manuscript, but careful study of the literary and historical associations reveals striking details which lead Dr Newton to claim, as he pieces together the various clues, a specific origin for the poem.

Dr Newton suggests that references in Beowulf to the heroes whose names ar...

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