1.

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910586598503321

Titolo

Subsoil Constraints for Crop Production / / edited by Teogenes Senna de Oliveira, Richard Willian Bell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

3-031-00317-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (453 pages)

Disciplina

631.4

Soggetti

Agriculture

Forests and forestry

Soil science

Environmental sciences - Social aspects

Pollution

Forestry

Soil Science

Environmental Social Sciences

Conreus

Sòls agrícoles

Llibres electrònics



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to subsoil constraints for crop production -- The geological, geomorphological, climatic, and hydrological background of Tropical Regoliths and hostile subsoils: The Brazilian landmass -- Soil acidity and acidification -- Salinity, Sodicity and Alkalinity -- Pyritic subsoils in acid sulfate soils and similar problems in mined areas with sulfidic rocks -- Physical subsoil constraints of agricultural and forestry land -- Subsoil and surface soil constraints of mined land and tailings -- Sand and gravel subsoils -- Soilborne pathogens -- Root systems of agricultural crops and their response to physical and chemical subsoil constraints -- Roots and beneficial interactions with soil microbes -- Nutrient acquisition with particular reference to subsoil constraints -- Water acquisition by roots from the subsoil: impact of physical constraints on the dynamics of water capture -- Deep soil carbon – characteristics and measurement with particular bearing on kaolinitic profiles -- Live subsoils: tropical regolith and biota interactions -- Subsoil constraints for crop production: recent advances, new technologies and priorities for further research.

Sommario/riassunto

This book will address the major subsoil physical and chemical constraints and their implications to crop production. Plant growth is often restricted by adverse physical and chemical properties of subsoils yet these limitations are not revealed by testing surface soils and hence their significance in crop management is often overlooked. The major constraints can be physical or chemical. Physical limitations such as poor/nil subsoil structure, sandy subsoils that do not provide adequate water or gravelly subsoils and, etc. On the other hand, chemical constraints include acidity/alkalinity, high extractable Al or Mn, low nutrient availability, salts, boron toxicity and pyritic subsoils. Some of these constraints are inherent properties of the soil profile while others are induced by crop and soil management practices. This aim of this book is to define the constraints and discuss amelioration practices and benefits for crop production. This book will be of interest to readers involved with agriculture and soil sciences in laboratory, applied or classroom settings.