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Vikings, Knights, Elves, and Ogres : Essays in Honor of Shaun F.D. Hughes / ed. by Eric R. Carlson, Dorsey Armstrong, Arielle C. McKee.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (XII, 240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2025]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- In his nearly half a century in the English Department of Purdue University, Shaun Hughes has had an incalculable impact on his students and colleagues, and this volume acknowledges the debt that generations of scholars in medieval studies owe to him. It highlights Dr. Hughes’s decades of research in a variety of fields: Old English language and literature, Middle English language and literature, Old Norse language and literature, and Tolkien.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Terminology
- A Non-Exhaustive List of Resources Cited, Consulted, and Recommended
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “And if þou redez hym ryȝt”: Violence and the Poetics of Temptation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Chapter 2 “She hath þe keye and þe clycat”: Langland’s Marian Enigmas
- Chapter 3 Food and Foodspaces as Weapons in Medieval Outlaw Narratives
- Chapter 4 The Christ-Bearer Legend in Icelandic Prose and Poetry
- Chapter 5 Making and Breaking Private Spaces in Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar
- Chapter 6 Mimetic Crisis in the Fenrir Myth
- Chapter 7 War Fronts and Scattered Spear Showers: The Meteorology of Battle in Skaldic Poetry
- Chapter 8 Góðra vina fundur: Thoughts on J. R. R. Tolkien’s and E. V. Gordon’s “Viking Club” Songbook at Leeds, and Related Nordic Songbooks
- Chapter 9 The Reluctant King and the Heavenly Hero: The Failures of Beowulf and the Heliand
- Afterword
- Shaun Stories
- Contributor Biographies
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5015-1132-7
- OCLC:
- 1511479507
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