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001 2011016877
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008 110420s2012 enkabf b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781408286036 (pbk.)
020 $a1408286033 (pbk.)
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050 00 $aPN681$b.B38 2012
082 00 $a809/.02$222
245 00 $aBeowulf & other stories :$ba new introduction to old English, old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman literatures /$cedited by Richard North and Joe Allard.
246 3 $aBeowulf and other stories
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aHarlow, England ;$aNew York :$bPearson/Longman,$c2012.
300 $axiv, 556 p., [20] p. of chiefly col. plates :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aWhy read Old English literature? : an introduction to this book / Richard North, David Crystal and Joe Allard -- Names to look out for / Richard North and Joe Allard -- Is it relevant? : Old English influence on The Lord of the Rings / Clive Tolley -- Is violence what Old English literature is about? : Beowulf and other battlers : an introduction to Beowulf / Andy Orchard -- Is there more like Beowulf? : Old English minor heroic poems / Richard North -- What else is there? : joyous play and bitter tears : the Riddles and the elegies / Jennifer Neville -- How Christian is OE literature? : The Dream of the Rood and Anglo-Saxon Northumbria / Éamonn Ó Carragáin and Richard North -- How did OE literature start? : Cædmon the cowherd and Old English biblical verse / Bryan Weston Wyly -- Were all the poets monks? : monasteries and courts : Alcuin and Offa / Andy Orchard -- What was it like to be in the Anglo-Saxon or Viking world? : material culture : archaeology and text / Michael Bintley -- Did the Anglo-Saxons write fiction? : Old English prose : King Alfred and his books / Susan Irvine -- How difficult is the Old English language? : the Old English language / Peter S. Baker -- When were the Vikings in England? : Viking wars and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Jayne Carroll -- Notes on the Old Norse language / Richard North -- What gods did the Vikings worship? : Viking religion : Old Norse mythology / Terry Gunnell -- Just who were the Vikings anyway? : sagas of Icelanders / Joe Allard -- Were there stories in late OE literature? : prose writers of the English Benedictine Reform / Stewart Brookes -- What happened when the Normans arrived? : Anglo-Norman literature : the road to Middle English / Patricia Gillies -- Epilogue : the end of Old English? / David Crystal.
650 0 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$yOld English, ca. 450-1100$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aOld Norse literature$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAnglo-Norman literature$xHistory and criticism.
700 1 $aNorth, Richard,$d1961-
700 1 $aAllard, Joe,$d1948-