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  1. Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European epic
    a study in comparative mythology
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Mellen, Lewiston, NY [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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  2. Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic
    a Study in Comparative Mythology
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780773421691; 0773421696; 9780773437555; 077343755X
    Subjects: Beowulf; Beowulf; Comparative literature / Themes, motives; Epic poetry, English (Old) / History and criticism; Mythology in literature; Mythology, Indo-European / Comparative studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; Comparative literature / Themes, motives; Epic poetry, English (Old); Mythology in literature; Mythology, Indo-European; Epic poetry, English (Old); Mythology in literature; Mythology, Indo-European; Comparative literature; Mythologie; Indogermanisch
    Scope: 605 pages
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    This monograph is the first book-length comprehensive textual analysis of the Beowulf saga as an Indo-European epic. It provides a detailed reading of the epic in conjunction with ancient legal and cultural practices that allow for a new understanding of this classic work. This theoretical resource offers insights valuable to the fields of comparative mythology, medieval literature and Anglo-Saxon studies

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Scyld, Beow, and the problem of hygelac -- Mythopoeia -- Grendel and his mother -- Grendel's mere -- Æschere's death and the problem of Hroǒgar -- 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

  3. Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European epic
    a study in comparative mythology
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Edwin Mellen, Lewiston [u.a.]

    Scyld, Beow, and the problem of hygelac -- Mythopoeia -- Grendel and his mother -- Grendel's mere -- Æschere's death and the problem of Hroǒgar -- Symbolic politics -- Family charisma -- Rhetoric in an open text -- Allusion: the semiotics of... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt / Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Universitätsbibliothek Erfurt
    HH 1564 A546
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    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
    2015 A 1849
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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    A 2010/6772
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    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
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    Scyld, Beow, and the problem of hygelac -- Mythopoeia -- Grendel and his mother -- Grendel's mere -- Æschere's death and the problem of Hroǒgar -- 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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 077343755X; 9780773437555
    RVK Categories: HH 1565
    Subjects: Epic poetry, English (Old); Mythology in literature; Mythology, Indo-European; Comparative literature
    Scope: IV, 592 S
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    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.