An Old Norse Courtly Analogue to Beowulf.
This article identifies a new Old Norse analogue to Beowulf's battle in the mere: an episode narrated in chapters 195–197 of the courtly thirteenth-century text Þiðreks saga af Bern. It describes and examines the resemblances between this episode and Beowulf's fight against Grendel's mother, as well...
| Publicado en: | Neophilologus Vol. 103; no. 4; pp. 577 - 591 |
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Oct2019
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