The Long Arm of Coincidence : The Frustrated Connection Between 'Beowulf' and 'Grettis Saga'.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781442676800
- 829/.3
- PR1585 .F53 1998
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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