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List of Illustrations | p. vii |
Preface | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Old English Language and Poetics | p. xv |
Translator's Introduction | p. xxiii |
The Text of Beowulf | p. 1 |
Contexts | p. 79 |
The Beowulf Manuscript | p. 81 |
Genesis 4.1-16 Cain and Abel | p. 84 |
Hall-Feasts and the Queen | p. 85 |
Grettir the Strong and the Trollwoman | p. 86 |
The Frisian Slaughter: Episode and Fragment | p. 89 |
Alcuin "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?" | p. 91 |
Gregory of Tours History of the Franks [Hygelac's Raid into Frisia] | p. 93 |
William of Malmesbury [Genealogy of the Royal Family of Wessex] | p. 93 |
On the Wars between the Swedes and the Geats | p. 94 |
Genealogies of the Royal Families in Beowulf | p. 95 |
The Kingdoms and Tribes of Beowulf | p. 96 |
Map: The Scandinavian Setting of Beowulf | p. 97 |
Beowulf's Name | p. 98 |
Criticism | p. 101 |
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics | p. 103 |
The Interlace Structure of Beowulf | p. 130 |
The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother | p. 152 |
The Beowulf Poet's Sense of History | p. 167 |
The Tomb of Beowulf | p. 181 |
The Christian Language and Theme of Beowulf | p. 197 |
Archaeology and Beowulf | p. 212 |
The Philologer Poet: Seamus Heaney and the Translation of Beowulf | p. 237 |
Glossary of Personal Names | p. 248 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 251 |
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