The Long Arm of Coincidence : The Frustrated Connection Between 'Beowulf' and 'Grettis Saga'.
Fjalldal, Magnus.
The Long Arm of Coincidence : The Frustrated Connection Between 'Beowulf' and 'Grettis Saga'. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (187 pages)
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.
9781442676800
Grettir Asmundarson, 996-1031-Romances-History and criticism.
Beowulf.
Mythology, Norse, in literature.
Electronic books.
PR1585 .F53 1998
829/.3
The Long Arm of Coincidence : The Frustrated Connection Between 'Beowulf' and 'Grettis Saga'. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (187 pages)
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.
9781442676800
Grettir Asmundarson, 996-1031-Romances-History and criticism.
Beowulf.
Mythology, Norse, in literature.
Electronic books.
PR1585 .F53 1998
829/.3