The Dating of Beowulf.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- EDITOR'S PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- THE DATING OF BEOWULF -- Opinions on the Date of Beowulf, 1815-1980 -- The Eleventh-Century Origin of Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript -- The Nowell Codex and the Poem of Beowulf -- A Reconsideration of the Language of Beowulf -- Metrical Style as Evidence for the Date of Beowulf -- Hetware and Hugas: Datable Anachronisms in Beowulf -- Beowulf, the Danish Invasions, and Royal Genealogy -- The Audience of Beowulf and the Vikings -- Skaldic Verse and the Date of Beowulf -- Variation in Beowulf and the Poetic Edda: A Chronological Experiment -- Saints' Lives, Royal Lives, and the Date of Beowulf -- Style as the Criterion for Dating the Composition of Beowulf -- On the Date of Composition of Beowulf -- The Date of Beowulf: Some Doubts and No Conclusions -- AFTERWORD: The Uses of Uncertainty: On the Dating of Beowulf -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

The date of Beowulf, debated for almost a century, is a small question with large ramifications. This collection of essays by leading scholars has become a standard reference for scholarship in the area.

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