LEADER 02821nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910820258903321 005 20230922211349.0 010 $a1-64189-933-6 010 $a1-80270-055-2 010 $a1-80270-054-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781802700541 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30160245 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30160245 035 $a(CKB)24892753100041 035 $a(OCoLC)1345581564 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_101004 035 $a(DE-B1597)632882 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781802700541 035 $a(OCoLC)1346364037 035 $a(UkLoBP)BP9781641899338BMS 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924892753100041 100 $a20230331e20222023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeowulf and the North Before the Vikings /$fTom Shippey 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLeeds :$cArc Humanities Press,$d2022. 210 2$aLondon :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2023. 215 $a1 online resource (136 pages) 225 1 $aPast Imperfect 311 08$aPrint version: Shippey, Tom Beowulf and the North Before the Vikings Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press,c2022 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aIntroduction : fantasy or history? -- Poetry and archaeology -- Old legend, new reality -- The bigger picture -- The non-national epic. 330 $aEver since Tolkien's famous lecture in 1936, it has been generally accepted that the poem Beowulf is a fantasy, and of no use as a witness to real history. This book challenges that view, and argues that the poem provides a plausible, detailed, and consistent vision of pre-Viking history which is most unlikely to have been the poet's invention, and which has moreover received strong corroboration from archaeology in recent years. Using the poem as a starting point, historical, archaeological, and legendary sources are combined to form a picture of events in the North in the fifth and sixth centuries: at once a Dark and a Heroic Age, and the time of the formation of nations. Among other things, this helps answer two long-unasked questions: why did the Vikings come as such a shock? And what caused the previous 250 years of security from raiders from the sea? 410 0$aPast Imperfect. 606 $aBeowulf$xCriticism and interpretation 606 $aCivilization, Viking 606 $aMythology, Norse 607 $aScandinavia 615 0$aBeowulf$xCriticism and interpretation. 615 0$aCivilization, Viking. 615 0$aMythology, Norse. 676 $a737 700 $aShippey$b Tom 801 0$bUkLoBP 801 1$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820258903321 996 $aBeowulf and the North Before the Vikings$94110717 997 $aUNINA