1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910709706403321

Titolo

The Loma Prieta, California, earthquake of October 17, 1989 : hydrologic disturbances / / Stuart Rojstaczer, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 1994

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 64 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

U.S. Geological Survey professional paper ; ; 1551-E

Strong ground motion and ground failure

Soggetti

Loma Prieta Earthquake, Calif., 1989

Earthquakes - California - Loma Prieta

Hydrogeology - California - San Francisco Bay Area

Tsunamis - California, Northern

Earthquakes

Hydrogeology

Tsunamis

California Loma Prieta

California, Northern

California San Francisco Bay Area

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 64).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910984621303321

Autore

Gräslund Bo

Titolo

The Nordic Beowulf / / Bo Gräslund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2022

© 2022

ISBN

9781802700237

1802700234

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 pages)

Collana

Medieval Media and Culture

Altri autori (Persone)

NaylorMartin

Disciplina

829/.3

Soggetti

LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History

Literary criticism

Literary criticism

Critiques littéraires.

Scandinavia Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Swedish.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACES -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2 THE ORIGINS OF THE POEM -- Chapter 3 SOME UNPROVEN PREMISES -- Chapter 4 DATING OF THE POEM -- Chapter 5 ARCHAEOLOGICAL DELIMINATION -- Chapter 6 RESULTS OF PRIMARY ANALYSIS, STEP 1 -- Chapter 7 THE NAME GEATAS -- Chapter 8 OTHER LINKS TO EASTERN SWEDEN -- Chapter 9 ELEMENTS OF NON-CHRISTIAN THINKING -- Chapter 10 POETRY IN SCANDINAVIA -- Chapter 11 THE ORAL STRUCTURE OF THE POEM -- Chapter 12 RESULTS OF PRIMARY ANALYSIS, STEP 2 -- Chapter 13 GOTLAND -- Chapter 14 HEOROT -- Chapter 15 SWEDES AND GUTES -- Chapter 16 THE HORSEMEN AROUND BEOWULF’S GRAVE -- Chapter 17 SOME LINGUISTIC DETAILS -- Chapter 18 FROM SCANDINAVIA TO ENGLAND -- Chapter 19 TRANSMISSION AND WRITING DOWN IN ENGLAND -- Chapter 20 ALLEGORICAL REPRESENTATION -- Chapter 21 BEOWULF AND GUTA SAGA -- Chapter 22 CHRONOLOGY -- Chapter 23



RETROSPECTIVE SUMMARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

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.