Beowulf and Other Stories A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures

Name: Beowulf and Other Stories A New Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures
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ISBN: 9781405835725

ISBN-10: 1405835729

ISBN-13: 9781405835725

Edition: 2007

Authors: Richard North, Joe Allard

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' Beowulf'& Other Stories has been conceivedin the firm belief that Old English - and its close cousins, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman - should be seen as a genuine delight, aperiod as replete with wonder, creativity and magic as any other in literature. The bookforageswith abandon through the literature of the period,turning up en route the fire and bloodlust of the great epic, Beowulf, and thesophistication and eroticismof theExeter Riddles. Fresh interpretations give new life to the spiritual ecstasyof The Seafarer and to the imaginative dexterity of The Dream of the Rood. 'Beowulf' & Other Stories provides the student and general reader with all they might need to explore and…

Book details

List price: $58.20
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Introduction: Why Old English?



Lord of the Rings and the Anglo-Saxons



Beowulf and the cult of violence



Heroic Poetry



Elegies and Riddles



The Dream of the Rood



C?dmon the Cowherd and Old English Biblical Verse



Monasteries and Courts: Alcuin and King Offa of Mercia



King Alfred and his Books: Old English Prose



An Introduction to the Old English Language



The Anglo Saxon Chronicle and the Wars with the Danes



Viking Religion: Old Norse Mythology



The Sagas of the Icelanders



?lfric and Wulfstan: Writers of the Benedictine Reform



Transition: From Old to Middle English


Bibliography


Notes on Contributors


Appendices