Essays on questions connected with the Old English poem of Beowulf
By: by Knut Stjerna ... tr. and ed. by John R. Clark Hall ...
Contributors: Hall, J. R. Clark 1855- tr.
Series: Half title: The Viking club...Viking club extra series, v. III
Publisher: Pub for the Viking clyb: society for northern research [etc.] by Curtis & Beamish, ltd.
Published: 1912
Place of publication: Coventry
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Beowulf.; Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism.; Germanic peoples in literature.; Dragons in literature.
Notes: "Essays ... (mainly archaeological) connected with the Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf ... published between the years 1903 and 1908 ... in learned reviews, volumes of transactions, festschrifts, and so forth." - Introd.
Impression limited to 600 copies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.  Helmets and swords in Beowulf.  Archaeological notes on Beowulf.  Vendel and the Vendel Crow.  Swedes and Geats during the migration period.  Scyld's funeral obsequies.  The dragon's hoard in Beowulf.  The double burial in Beowulf.  Beowulf's funeral obsequies.  Index of things.  Bibliography of Dr. Stjerna's works (p. [265]-266)  Principal authorities quoted or referred to (p. [267]-268)  Passages in Beowulf referred to or discussed.