Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
SECTION I. The Problem 1 SECTION II. The Geatas--their Kings and their Wars 2 SECTION III. Heorot and the Danish Kings 13 SECTION IV. Leire and Heorot 16 SECTION V. The Heathobeardan 20 SECTION VI. Hrothulf 25 SECTION VII. King Offa 31
It is now ten years since Prof. Lawrence attacked the mythological theories which, from the time when they were first enunciated by Kemble and elaborated by Muellenhoff, had wie...
10. PART IIUerum a Dan, ut fert antiquitas, regum nostrorum stemmata, ceu quodam deriuata principio, splendido successionis ordine profluxerunt. Huic filii Humblus et Lotherus fuere, ex Gr...
8. CHAPTER IIWhen we come to the story of Beowulf's struggle with Grendel, with Grendel's mother, and with the dragon, we are faced by difficulties much greater than those which meet us when...
13. PART IIIThe _Finnsburg Fragment_ was discovered two centuries ago in the library of Lambeth Palace by George Hickes. It was written on a single leaf, which was transcribed and published...
7. CHAPTER IThe unique MS of _Beowulf_ may be, and if possible should be, seen by the student in the British Museum. It is a good specimen of the elegant script of Anglo-Saxon times: "a boo...
9. CHAPTER IIIOur poem, the first original poem of any length in the English tongue, ignores England. In one remarkable passage (ll. 1931-62) it mentions with praise Offa I, the great king wh...
12. Book IV, ed. Ascensius, fol. xxxiv b; ed. Holder, pp. 113-7.Cumque Wermundus aetatis uitio oculis orbaretur, Saxoniae rex, Daniam duce uacuam ratus, ei per legatos mandat, regnum, quod praeter aetatis debitum teneat, sibi procurandum com...
6. PART IVA. A Postscript on Mythology in _Beowulf_. (1) Beowulf the Scylding and Beowulf son of Ecgtheow. (2) Beow 291 B. Grendel 304 C. The Stages above Woden in the West-Saxon Genealog...
4. PART IIA. The early Kings of the Danes, according to Saxo Grammaticus: Dan, Humblus, Lotherus and Scioldus; Frotho's dragon fight; Haldanus, Roe and Helgo; Roluo (Rolf Kraki) and Biarc...
11. Book IV, ed. Ascensius, fol. xxxii b; ed. Holder, pp. 106-7.Cui filius Wermundus succedit. Hic prolixis tranquillitatis otiis felicissima temporum quiete decursis, diutinam domesticae pacis constantiam inconcussa rerum securitate tractab...
5. PART III3. CHAPTER III. THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN,SECTION I. Is _Beowulf_ translated from a Scandinavian original? 98 SECTION II. The dialect, syntax and metre of _Beowulf_ as evidence of its literary history 104 SECTION III. T...
2. CHAPTER II. THE NON-HISTORICAL ELEMENTSSECTION I. The Grendel Fight 41 SECTION II. The Scandinavian Parallels--Grettir and Orm 48 SECTION III. Bothvar Bjarki 54 SECTION IV. Parallels from Folklore 62 SECTION V. Scef...
1. CHAPTER I. THE HISTORICAL ELEMENTSSECTION I. The Problem 1 SECTION II. The Geatas--their Kings and their Wars 2 SECTION III. Heorot and the Danish Kings 13 SECTION IV. Leire and Heorot 16 SECTION V. The Heathobe...
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