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The Long Arm of Coincidence : The Frustrated Connection Between 'Beowulf' and 'Grettis Saga'.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (187 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442676800
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Long Arm of CoincidenceDDC classification:
  • 829/.3
LOC classification:
  • PR1585 .F53 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I: The Proposed Genetically Related Analogues -- 1 Determining Analogous and Genetically Related Material -- 2 The Making of Heroes and Monsters -- 3 The Hero's Fight against the Monsters -- 4 A Sword by Any Other Name -- 5 Hell and High Water -- Part II: To Cement a Relationship -- 6 The English Hypothesis -- 7 Panzer's 'Bear's Son' Thesis -- 8 The Common Origin Theory -- 9 The Big Bang Theory -- Part III: The Genetically Related Beowulf Analogues in Grettis saga in View of Icelandic Sources -- 10 A Saga Author Shops Around: The Eclectic Composition of the Glámr and Sandhaugar Episodes -- 11 Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Passionately and engagingly written, occasionally forceful, The Long Arm of Coincidence successfully reopens a classic argument in Old Norse and Old English studies, and will be sure to provoke strong reactions on both sides of this question.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I: The Proposed Genetically Related Analogues -- 1 Determining Analogous and Genetically Related Material -- 2 The Making of Heroes and Monsters -- 3 The Hero's Fight against the Monsters -- 4 A Sword by Any Other Name -- 5 Hell and High Water -- Part II: To Cement a Relationship -- 6 The English Hypothesis -- 7 Panzer's 'Bear's Son' Thesis -- 8 The Common Origin Theory -- 9 The Big Bang Theory -- Part III: The Genetically Related Beowulf Analogues in Grettis saga in View of Icelandic Sources -- 10 A Saga Author Shops Around: The Eclectic Composition of the Glámr and Sandhaugar Episodes -- 11 Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Passionately and engagingly written, occasionally forceful, The Long Arm of Coincidence successfully reopens a classic argument in Old Norse and Old English studies, and will be sure to provoke strong reactions on both sides of this question.

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