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Beowulf and the North before the Vikings - Past Imperfect New edition
Shippey, Tom (Professor, Saint Louis University)
Beowulf and the North before the Vikings - Past Imperfect New edition
Shippey, Tom (Professor, Saint Louis University)
Ever since Tolkiens famous lecture in 1936, it has been generally accepted that the poem Beowulf is a fantasy, and of no use as a witness to real history. This book challenges that view, and argues that the poem provides a plausible, detailed, and consistent vision of pre-Viking history which is most unlikely to have been the poets invention, and which has moreover received strong corroboration from archaeology in recent years. Using the poem as a starting point, historical, archaeological, and legendary sources are combined to form a picture of events in the North in the fifth and sixth centuries: at once a Dark and a Heroic Age, and the time of the formation of nations. Among other things, this helps answer two long-unasked questions: why did the Vikings come as such a shock? And what caused the previous 250 years of security from raiders from the sea?
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152 pages, 5 Tables, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 31 sierpnia 2022 |
ISBN13 | 9781802700138 |
Wydawcy | Arc Humanities Press |
Strony | 136 |
Wymiary | 178 × 115 × 11 mm · 146 g |
Język | English |