A History of the VikingsOxford University Press, 1968 - 504 sider An illustrated study of the northern peoples and kingdoms of Ireland, Greenland, Britain, and Christian Europe and their culture, society and livelihood. Illustrations. |
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... Beowulf and Widsith no knowledge at all of the Geats . But it would be overgloomy to con- clude that we therefore survey the problem out of two blind eyes . It helps that the tone of the Beowulf passages is always serious and thoughtful ...
... Beowulf and Widsith no knowledge at all of the Geats . But it would be overgloomy to con- clude that we therefore survey the problem out of two blind eyes . It helps that the tone of the Beowulf passages is always serious and thoughtful ...
Side 41
Gwyn Jones. pattern . This is the world of Beowulf : graves and poem are parallel revelations of an age.1 Taken in conjunction with those passages of Beowulf which tell of the Geat attack on Frisia c . 521 ( pp . 30-31 above ) , this is ...
Gwyn Jones. pattern . This is the world of Beowulf : graves and poem are parallel revelations of an age.1 Taken in conjunction with those passages of Beowulf which tell of the Geat attack on Frisia c . 521 ( pp . 30-31 above ) , this is ...
Side 46
... Beowulf , that we reach some slight , some possible assurance of history , presumably at the beginning of the second half of the fifth century . His son Hrothgar was an aged guardian of his people when we read of him in Beowulf , an ...
... Beowulf , that we reach some slight , some possible assurance of history , presumably at the beginning of the second half of the fifth century . His son Hrothgar was an aged guardian of his people when we read of him in Beowulf , an ...
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From the Beginnings to the Age of Migrations | 17 |
The Legendary History of the Swedes and the Danes | 47 |
Diversity and Unity | 59 |
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