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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01-31 - Publisher: BRILL
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Language: en
Pages: 70
Pages: 70
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-01 - Publisher: Courier Corporation
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and hist
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-20 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
This collection of essays examines the motifs of darkness, depression, and descent in both literal and figurative manifestations within a variety of Anglo-Saxon
Language: en
Pages: 236
Pages: 236
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
This study in the characterization of the epic poem interprets Beowulf as a disconfirmation of the heroic type. It argues that the poem is the vehicle of a stro
Language: en
Pages: 232
Pages: 232
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-25 - Publisher: McFarland
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