The Nordic Beowulf / by Bo Gräslund ; translated from Swedish by Martin Naylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gräslund, Bo, author.

Contributor:

Naylor, Martin, translator.

Series:

Medieval media cultures.

Medieval media cultures

Standardized Title:

Beowulfkvädet. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

Beowulf--Criticism and interpretation.

Beowulf.

Epic poetry, English (Old)--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, English (Old).

Old Norse poetry--History and criticism.

Old Norse poetry.

Oral tradition--Scandinavia--History--To 1500.

Oral tradition.

Comparative literature--English and Scandinavian.

Comparative literature.

Scandinavia--Civilization--In literature.

Scandinavia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, 2022.

Language Note:

Translated from the Swedish. Passages in Old English and Old Norse with parallel English translations from the Old English and Old Norse.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Biography/History:

Bo Gräslund is professor emeritus in archaeology at Uppsala University.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2024).

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed May 6, 2024)

Other Format:

Print version: Gräslund, Bo The Nordic Beowulf

ISBN:

9781802700237

1802700234

OCLC:

1313071889