Beowulf and Beyond

Beowulf and Beyond

Classic Anglo-Saxon Poems, Stories, Sayings, Spells, and Riddles

Veach, Dan

Lockwood Press

06/2021

232

Mole

Inglês

9781948488617

15 a 20 dias

392

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Foreword
Preface

TALES FROM THE VENERABLE BEDE
The Story of Caedmon
Pope Gregory sees an Angle
The Story of the Sparrow
From the Venerable Bede, by A. E. Stallings
Bede's Death Song

BLOOD & BATTLE
Viking Attack on Lindisfarne
The Battle of Brunanburg
The Battle of Maldon
Norman Invasion of 1066

LOVE & LOSS
The Seafarer
The Wife's Lament
The Husband's Message
The Wanderer

BOLD SPIRITS
From the Anglo-Saxon Genesis
Satan's Rebellion
The Temptation
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Dream of the Rood
Judith

MAGIC & MYSTERY
Magic Spells
To Heal the Land
For a Swarm of Bees
Charms for Childbirth
Maxims
Riddles
#25. "I'm a wonderful creature"
#27. "I'm treasured by men, found far and wide"
#44. "It hangs in splendor by a man's thigh"
#5. "I'm a lonely wretch, wounded by iron"
#61. "Sometimes a lady locks me"
#46. "A man sat at wine with two wives"
#45. "I hear tell of something"
#47. "A moth munching on words"
#54. "The young man came"
Answers to Riddles

BEOWULF
Episodes
Introduction
Beowulf
I. Grendel
II. Grendel's Mother
III. The Dragon
The Finnsburg Fragment

Selected Readings and Media
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Beowulf; Literary Studies; Medieval Studies; The Seafarer; Old English poetry in translation; Anglo-Saxon literature; early English literature; Bede; riddles