LEADER 04075nam 22006973 450 001 9910984621303321 005 20231110232123.0 010 $a9781802700237 010 $a1802700234 024 7 $a10.1515/9781802700237 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6976380 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6976380 035 $a(CKB)21989063600041 035 $a(DE-B1597)617666 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781802700237 035 $a(OCoLC)1313071889 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_98469 035 $a(OCoLC)1317321844 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921989063600041 100 $a20220508d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Nordic Beowulf /$fBo Gräslund 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAmsterdam :$cArc Humanities Press,$d2022 210 4$d© 2022 215 $a1 online resource (286 pages) 225 1 $aMedieval Media and Culture 300 $aTranslated from the Swedish. 311 08$aPrint version: Gräslund, Bo The Nordic Beowulf Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press,c2022 9781802700084 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- $tPREFACES -- $tChapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- $tChapter 2 THE ORIGINS OF THE POEM -- $tChapter 3 SOME UNPROVEN PREMISES -- $tChapter 4 DATING OF THE POEM -- $tChapter 5 ARCHAEOLOGICAL DELIMINATION -- $tChapter 6 RESULTS OF PRIMARY ANALYSIS, STEP 1 -- $tChapter 7 THE NAME GEATAS -- $tChapter 8 OTHER LINKS TO EASTERN SWEDEN -- $tChapter 9 ELEMENTS OF NON-CHRISTIAN THINKING -- $tChapter 10 POETRY IN SCANDINAVIA -- $tChapter 11 THE ORAL STRUCTURE OF THE POEM -- $tChapter 12 RESULTS OF PRIMARY ANALYSIS, STEP 2 -- $tChapter 13 GOTLAND -- $tChapter 14 HEOROT -- $tChapter 15 SWEDES AND GUTES -- $tChapter 16 THE HORSEMEN AROUND BEOWULF?S GRAVE -- $tChapter 17 SOME LINGUISTIC DETAILS -- $tChapter 18 FROM SCANDINAVIA TO ENGLAND -- $tChapter 19 TRANSMISSION AND WRITING DOWN IN ENGLAND -- $tChapter 20 ALLEGORICAL REPRESENTATION -- $tChapter 21 BEOWULF AND GUTA SAGA -- $tChapter 22 CHRONOLOGY -- $tChapter 23 RETROSPECTIVE SUMMARY -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY 330 $aIn such a wide-ranging, long-standing, and international field of scholarship as Beowulf, one might imagine that everything would long since have been thoroughly investigated. And yet as far as the absolutely crucial question of the poem's origins is concerned, that is not the case.This cross-disciplinary study by Bo Gräslund argues that the material, geographical, historical, social, and ideological framework of Beowulf cannot be the independent literary product of an Old English Christian poet, but was in all essentials created orally in Scandinavia, which was a fertile seedbed for epic poetry.Through meticulous argument interwoven with an impressive assemblage of data, archaeological and otherwise, Gräslund offers possible answers to the questions of the provenance of the Geats, the location of Heorot, and many more, such as the significance of Sutton Hoo and the signification of the Grendel kin and dragon in the sixth century when the events of the poem, coinciding with cataclysmic events in northern Europe, took place. 410 0$aMedieval Media and Culture 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval$2bisacsh 607 $aScandinavia$xAntiquities 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 608 $aHistory$2fast 608 $aLiterary criticism$2fast 608 $aLiterary criticism.$2lcgft 608 $aCritiques litte?raires.$2rvmgf 610 $aEastern Sweden. 610 $aGotland. 610 $aGrendel. 610 $aHeorot. 610 $aScandinavian epics. 610 $aSutton Hoo. 610 $ageats. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. 676 $a829/.3 700 $aGra?slund$b Bo$4aut$01793204 701 $aNaylor$b Martin$01793205 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910984621303321 996 $aThe Nordic Beowulf$94332753 997 $aUNINA