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Christine Rauer, Beowulf and the Dragon: Parallels and Analogues by Inge B. Milfull is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Christine Rauer, Beowulf and the Dragon: Parallels and Analogues about?
This book, the revised version of a doctoral thesis supervised by Andy Orchard, demonstrates that the possible influence of hagiographical narrative on the final section of Beowulf, which contains the dragon fight, had previously been considerably underrated and it also suggests influence from two specific hagiographic traditions. This conclusion is based on the careful study of two corpora of narrative texts, which forms the core of the book. One of these is a corpus of forty-six secular Scandinavian dragon fight narratives, classified by the author into five basic types. These are the texts that have so far chiefly been invoked as analogues for the dragon fight narrative in Beowulf. Acknowledged difficulties have been that these accounts are later and that there is hardly any evidence for these stories being known in Anglo-Saxon England, with a single exception: a version of the dragon fight from the Volsung tradition, which is explicitly alluded to by the Beowulf poet himself. The author shows that, quite apart from these problems, there are a number of features of the dragon fight narrative in Beowulf that the Scandinavian analogues do not truly account for. These are: the drag
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- Author
- Inge B. Milfull
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)