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Beowulf & other stories : a new introduction to old English, old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman literatures
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- Creator
- edited by Richard North and Joe Allard
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Second edition
- Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson/Longman, 2012
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 556 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of chiefly color plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781408286036, 1408286033
- OCLC
- ocn714113400
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Why read Old English literature? : an introduction to this book / Richard North, David Crystal and Joe Allard -- Names to look out for / Richard North and Joe Allard -- Is it relevant? : Old English influence on The Lord of the Rings / Clive Tolley -- Is violence what Old English literature is about? : Beowulf and other battlers : an introduction to Beowulf / Andy Orchard -- Is there more like Beowulf? : Old English minor heroic poems / Richard North -- What else is there? : joyous play and bitter tears : the Riddles and the elegies / Jennifer Neville -- How Christian is OE literature? : The Dream of the Rood and Anglo-Saxon Northumbria / Éamonn Ó Carragáin and Richard North -- How did OE literature start? : Cædmon the cowherd and Old English biblical verse / Bryan Weston Wyly -- Were all the poets monks? : monasteries and courts : Alcuin and Offa / Andy Orchard -- What was it like to be in the Anglo-Saxon or Viking world? : material culture : archaeology and text / Michael Bintley -- Did the Anglo-Saxons write fiction? : Old English prose : King Alfred and his books / Susan Irvine -- How difficult is the Old English language? : the Old English language / Peter S. Baker -- When were the Vikings in England? : Viking wars and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Jayne Carroll -- Notes on the Old Norse language / Richard North -- What gods did the Vikings worship? : Viking religion : Old Norse mythology / Terry Gunnell -- Just who were the Vikings anyway? : sagas of Icelanders / Joe Allard -- Were there stories in late OE literature? : prose writers of the English Benedictine Reform / Stewart Brookes -- What happened when the Normans arrived? : Anglo-Norman literature : the road to Middle English / Patricia Gillies -- Epilogue : the end of Old English? / David Crystal