Beowulf and Lejre: Foreword by John Hines. Afterword by Tom Shippey (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Band 323) - Hardcover
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On the basis of legendary analogues, specialists in the Old English poem Beowulf have long inferred that the action of the main part of that poem is situated at the village of Gammel Lejre on the island of Zealand, Denmark. Archaeological excavations undertaken from 1986 to 1988 under the direction of Tom Christensen of Roskilde Museum yielded spectacular confirmation of that inference by uncovering the remains of two great halls at Lejre dating from ca. AD 680 to 990, one built on the site of the other. At that time, this discovery had little impact upon Beowulf scholarship, in part because the chief monograph reporting on the excavations was available only in Danish. In 200405, however, a new round of excavations revealed that a still earlier hall had once stood elsewhere at Lejre. This hall has been dated to the mid-sixth century, very close to the time when the action of Beowulf is set. The question of the Danish origins of the Beowulf story is thus now highlighted.
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Beowulf and Lejre (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 323)
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Hardcover. Zustand: New. xiv, 495 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), music ; 27 cm. Summary:Tradition places the main action of this Old English poem at Lejre, Zealand (Denmark), and excavations there 1986-88 and 2004-05 have revealed a succession of great halls dated from the middle sixth to the late tenth centuries, and very similar to the one described in eight-century poem. Archaeologists, historians, and literary scholars consider the implications. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PGBREPOLS77
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