Beowulf and its analogues
by George Norman Garmonsway, Hilda Ellis Davidson, Jacqueline Simpson
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Still the standard book for analogues.
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Jacqueline Simpson is the Secretary of the Folklore Society.
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- The purpose of the present work is not only to offer a new translation of Beowulf, but also to gather between the covers of a single book translations of the numerous and scattered texts - of very varied types and periods - w... (show all)hich may be held to have a bearing on our understanding of the characters and episodes in the poem.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But the realism and accuracy of detail shown in the descriptions of material objects and of funeral customs in Beowulf, which the evidence of archaeology increasingly forces us to recognize, must certainly be taken into account in theories about its origins.
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