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Frontcover 1 Contents 6 List of Tables 8 List of Illustrations 9 List of Contributors 10 Acknowledgements 11 Introduction 12 1 Beowulf and Language History 30 2 Germanic Legend, Scribal Errors, and Cultural Change 47 3 Names in Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon England 69 4 The Limits of Conservative Composition in Old English Poetry 89 5 The Date of Composition of Beowulf and the Evidence of Metrical Evolution 108 6 Beowulf and the Containment of Scyld in the West Saxon Royal Genealogy 123 7 History and Fiction in the Frisian Raid 149 8 “Give the People What They Want”: Historiography and Rhetorical History of the Dating of Beowulf Controversy 168 9 A Note on the Other Heorot 189 10 Beowulf and Conversion History 202 11 Material Monsters and Semantic Shifts 213 12 Scandals in Toronto: Kaluza’s Law and Transliteration Errors 230 13 Afterword: Beowulf and Everything Else 246 Index 260 Backcover 266

Author

Leonard Neidorf

Published

2014

Language

EN