"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems / / ed. by Craig Williamson, Craig Williamson.
The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Note on Editions
- Guide to Pronouncing Old English
- On Translating Old English Poetry
- BEOWULF
- Introduction
- Beowulf
- OTHER OLD ENGLISH POEMS
- A Note on Genres
- Heroic or Historical Poems
- Elegies
- Selected Exeter Book Riddles
- Gnomic or Wisdom Poems
- Religious Poems
- Appendix A. "Digressions": Battles, Feuds, and Family Strife in Beowulf
- Appendix B. Genealogies in Beowulf
- Appendix C. Two Scandinavian Analogues of Beowulf
- Appendix D. Possible Riddle Solutions
- Glossary of Proper Names
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments