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Beowulf, Hero of the Old English - Mythillogical Podcast
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2:34:54Now PlayingOn today's episode Crofty makes a triumphant return, joining Charles to wax poetic about Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic rich in historical and legendary connections, and to ask if the eponymous hero was a poet’s creation, or a figure of legend himself?
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Sources:
The Anglo-Saxons by Marc Morris
A Guide to Old English (8th Edition) by Bruce Mitchell and Fred Robinson
Introduction to Old English (3rd edition) by Peter S. Baker
A Beowulf handbook: an indispensable guide to the old English poem by Robert B. Bjork and John D. Niles
Interpretations of Beowulf : a critical anthology, edited by R. D. Fulk
A Critical Companion to Beowulf by Andy Orchard
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics by J. R. R. Tolkien
Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition by Howell D. Chickering Jr
Beowulf: a translation and commentary: together with Sellic Spell by J. R. R. Tolkien
Lejre beyond the legend by Tom Christensen
The Origins of Beowulf: And the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia by Sam Newton
Anglo-Latin literature, 600-899 by Michael Lapidge
Liber monstrorum: A translation of the Old English text by Andy Orchard
The relation of the Hrólfs saga kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beowulf by Oscar Ludvig Olson
Beowulf before Beowulf: Anglo-Saxon Anthroponymy and Heroic Legend by Leonard Neidorf
King Hygelac of the Geats: History, Legend, and Beowulf by Leonard Neidorf
Legends of Lejre, Home of Kings by Marijane Osborn
Bee-Wolf and the Hand of Victory: Identifying the Heroes of Beowulf and Vǫlsunga saga by Christopher Abram
Hrólfs saga Gautrekssonar and the Originality of Beowulf by Tom Grant
#Beowulf #OldEnglish #Anglosaxons
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