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Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European epic: a study in comparative mythology
2010, Edwin Mellen Press
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077343755X 9780773437555
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Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European epic: a study in comparative mythology
2010, Edwin Mellen Press
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Book Details
Table of Contents
Scyld, Beow, and the problem of hygelac
Mythopoeia
Grendel and his mother
Grendel's mere
Aschere's death and the problem of Hrogar
Symbolic politics
Family charisma
Rhetoric in an open text
Allusion: the semiotics of digression
Battlefield typescenes
Wyrd, Ellen, Geuyld, and the heroic moment
The dragon's treasure.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.