Introduction : myths and texts -- Locating Beowulf in literary history -- Widsith, the Goths, and the anthropology of the past -- Anglo-Saxon heroic geography : how (on Earth) can it be mapped? -- The myth of the Anglo-Saxon oral poet -- Maldon and Mythopoesis -- Byrhtnoth's laughter and the poetics of gesture -- True stories and other lies -- Bede's Cædmon, "the man who had no story" (Irish tale-type 2412B) -- Heaney's Beowulf six years later.
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Title
Old English heroic poems and the social life of texts.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Epic poetry, English (Old)-- History and criticism.
Heroes in literature.
Literature and society-- England-- History-- To 1500.
18.05 English literature.
Altenglisch
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Epische poëzie.
Epische poëzie.
Heldenepen.
Heldenepos
Heroes in literature.
Hjältar i litteraturen.
Literature and society.
Litteratur och samhälle-- England-- före 1500.
Manners and customs.
Zeithintergrund
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
England, Social life and customs, To 1066.
Altenglisch.
England, vardagsliv och traditioner, historia, före 1500.