Anglo-Saxon England
Contributors: Michael Lapidge (Editor); Malcolm Godden (Editor); Simon Keynes (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 21, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780521807722
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1000 to c 1500; British & Irish history: c 500 to c 1000; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature: Classics; General; Literary Collections; History - General History; British Isles; Medieval; History / General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: The landscape of the epic poem Beowulf is a fantasy construct in which incompatible features coexist, but while it is an unprofitable exercise to attempt a reconstruction of a coherent topography in which Beowulf's exploits took place, the poet's choice of individual landscape terms is not likely to be random.