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From:British Writers, Retrospective Supplement 2Paul Bibire Introduction OLD ENGLISH (OCCASIONALLY known as “Anglo-Saxon”) is the earliest recorded form of English, surviving in texts written between the late seventh and the early twelfth century A.D. The language...Found in Gale Literature: Scribner Writer Series
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 78, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedAfter Hygelac falls in his Frisian raid, Beowulf receives a surprising offer from Hygd, his widowed queen (2367-70a): Hygd's offer sounds strange for a number of reasons.(1) I wonder, for instance, whether the early...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 94, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedHospitality is a common social, religious, and moral imperative that should guarantee the peaceful reception of a foreigner and ensure a harmonious regulation of host and guest relationships. It codifies a set of...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 121, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEduard Sievers sorted Old English verses with acceptable linguistic patterns into five categories called verse types. Taking the most compact realization of each type as basic, he defined type A as a falling rhythm with...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 78, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedLet each recall his good ancestor. I would not wish for anything That a poor song should be made about us by a jongleur. -- Raoul de Cambrai, 4142-44(1) People talk about themselves and others in Beowulf. In at least...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 78, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedIn Beowulf the clearest instances of groups reforming themselves, other than Wiglaf's remaking of the Geatish wartroop, are those involving either feud between in-laws or strife within dynastic houses. Principally,...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Studies in Philology (Vol. 119, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLines 175-88 of Beowulf constitute a longstanding interpretive crux. One solution to this crux has been to regard the passage as wholly or partly inauthentic--a solution advocated by no less a scholar than J. R. R....Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 109, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBeowulf is an intertexual poem, and our understanding and appreciation of it depends to a great extent upon our engagement with texts beyond its physical boundaries in Cotton Vittelius A.xv. As Joseph Harris has...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies (Vol. 53, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe article considers the significance of the Grendelkin as monsters, bringing to attention the Isidorian understanding of the monster as a sign, portent, and admonition. In the original Beowulf the Grendelkin are not...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 80, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne odd feature of Beowulf, which has attracted some notice but as yet no detailed explanation, is the poet's delay in naming his main character. (1) He identifies him first, at home among the Geats hearing of Grendel's...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 78, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedDIFFERENT HISTORICITIES In his study of various Polynesian traditions, Marshall Sahlins has observed that what constitutes a significant account of the past is very differently formulated in the narrative systems of...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Philological Quarterly (Vol. 78, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThere have been a number of studies over the last twenty to thirty years seeking to explain the structural and thematic role of the feud in Beowulf.(1) It has frequently been argued that the feuds between the various...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association (Vol. 13) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Our familiarity with Beowulf can obscure its sheer unlikeliness. What was the poet thinking? How could he, most likely an Anglo-Saxon monastic, have conceived this long poem about sixth-century pagans?...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 106, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedYoung Beowulf sails to Denmark to aid the Danes against Grendel, who has raided Hrothgar's hall for a dozen years. Beowulf vanquishes the monster and heads home. In reporting the episode to his king, Beowulf declares in...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (Vol. 95, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMetrical accent in Old English poetry imitated the stress patterns of normal speech. Bipartite verses, lines formed of two words with two lifts and a halfstress, are by far the most common in Old English, especially in...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 45, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn 1880 letter by editor F.J. Furnivall to the librarian of the Copenhagen, Denmark, Royal Library provides new facts on the circumstances surrounding the facsimile edition of the Old English poem 'Beowulf' by editor...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Mythlore (Vol. 23, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTHE recent success of Seamus Heaney's adaptation of the Old English Beowulf was a phenomenon as surprising to the literary world as to the publishing houses. As copies of this thousand year-old poem flew off the shelves...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center
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From:Neuphilologische Mitteilungen (Vol. 118, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe half-line seah on unleofe (Beowulf, 2863b) is metrically irregular because the finite verb bears the alliteration in preference over a nominal form in the same hemistich. For the comparable irregularity in the...Found in Gale Literature Resource Center