Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European epic
Subtitle: a study in comparative mythology
By: Earl R. Anderson ; with a foreword by Mary P. Richards.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773437555
Subjects: Beowulf; Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism; Mythology in literature; Mythology, Indo-European -- Comparative studies; Literature, Comparative -- Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scyld, Beow, and the problem of hygelac; title: Mythopoeia; title: Grendel and his mother; title: Grendel's mere; title: Aschere's death and the problem of Hrogar; title: Symbolic politics; title: Family charisma; title: Rhetoric in an open text; title: Allusion: the semiotics of digression; title: Battlefield typescenes; title: Wyrd, Ellen, Geuyld, and the heroic moment; title: The dragon's treasure.