Beowulf: An Old English PoemK. Paul, Trench, 1883 - 179 páginas |
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... story , a dim and vague but authentic record of the doings of our ances- tors some fourteen centuries ago . Dr. Grein , indeed , ranks it higher as an historical authority than the later Sagas which deal with the same period , or the ...
... story , a dim and vague but authentic record of the doings of our ances- tors some fourteen centuries ago . Dr. Grein , indeed , ranks it higher as an historical authority than the later Sagas which deal with the same period , or the ...
Página xii
... story . It would not be difficult , I think , to extract a myth of the dawn fighting with the powers of darkness ... stories must be sought in xii INTRODUCTION .
... story . It would not be difficult , I think , to extract a myth of the dawn fighting with the powers of darkness ... stories must be sought in xii INTRODUCTION .
Página xiii
An Old English Poem. the Grendel and the dragon stories must be sought in the vast Serbonian bog of Gothic legend - nay , even farther afield - and the most resolute stickler for the historical reality of the hero himself will hardly ...
An Old English Poem. the Grendel and the dragon stories must be sought in the vast Serbonian bog of Gothic legend - nay , even farther afield - and the most resolute stickler for the historical reality of the hero himself will hardly ...
Página xvi
... story of St. Willibrord , who landed in Friesland in 690 , and visited Denmark in 695. The king of the Danes allowed him to take thirty young men back with him into Friesland to be educated in the Christian faith . Now what difficulty ...
... story of St. Willibrord , who landed in Friesland in 690 , and visited Denmark in 695. The king of the Danes allowed him to take thirty young men back with him into Friesland to be educated in the Christian faith . Now what difficulty ...
Página xvii
... story of the invention of the cross , are precisely the subjects on which a churchman's imagination would delight to dwell , and which he would weave , or cause to be woven , into " lively and stirring poems . " For them the learning ...
... story of the invention of the cross , are precisely the subjects on which a churchman's imagination would delight to dwell , and which he would weave , or cause to be woven , into " lively and stirring poems . " For them the learning ...
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bade battle beneath Beowulf bold bore brave bright Cheaper Edition chief cloth corselet Danes deadly dear death deeds Demy 8vo dragon dread Eadgils Eanmund earls earth Ecgtheow's English eotens Essay Fcap fierce fight Finn fire Fourth Edition Frisian Frontispiece gainst gave gifts gilt glorious gold goodly Gothic Goths Grein Grendel Grendel's mother grief guard Halfdene's hall hand Healfdene heart helm helmet Hengest Heorot hero Higelac Hildeburh Hnæf hoard Hrethel Hrothgar Hrunting Hygd Kemble king knight land Large crown 8vo Large post 8vo Library Edition LL.B Maps mighty mong monster neath Note o'er Onela Ongentheow people's poem Portrait Prof rings Scyldings Scylfing Second Edition Sermons shield slain Small 8vo Small crown 8vo Songs sorrow spake story strife sword tale thane thee Third Edition thou Translated treasure twas valiant vellum vols Wægmund warrior waves ween Wiglaf wondrous words wrath wrought
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