04075nam 22006973 450 991098462130332120231110232123.09781802700237180270023410.1515/9781802700237(MiAaPQ)EBC6976380(Au-PeEL)EBL6976380(CKB)21989063600041(DE-B1597)617666(DE-B1597)9781802700237(OCoLC)1313071889(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98469(OCoLC)1317321844(EXLCZ)992198906360004120220508d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Nordic Beowulf /Bo Gräslund1st ed.Amsterdam :Arc Humanities Press,2022© 20221 online resource (286 pages)Medieval Media and Culture Translated from the Swedish.Print version: Gräslund, Bo The Nordic Beowulf Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press,c2022 9781802700084 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 -- BIBLIOGRAPHYIn 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.Medieval Media and Culture LITERARY CRITICISM / MedievalbisacshScandinaviaAntiquitiesCriticism, interpretation, etc.fastHistoryfastLiterary criticismfastLiterary criticism.lcgftCritiques littéraires.rvmgfEastern Sweden.Gotland.Grendel.Heorot.Scandinavian epics.Sutton Hoo.geats.LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.829/.3Gräslund Boaut1793204Naylor Martin1793205MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910984621303321The Nordic Beowulf4332753UNINA