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OverviewAlthough Beowulf is the most important poem in Anglo-Saxon poetry, it is set in Denmark and southern Sweden. And it originated in Denmark, where the earliest criticism of the work also saw the light of day. Beowulf is a Germanic hero type but is saved by the Christian poet to a life in God's world, despite demanding to be buried in a pagan mound. The tragic dimension of Beowulf's life story is shown partly by the fact that the gold treasure he gains at the risk of his life in the dragon battle will not please anyone, and partly by the fact that he has no queen and no heir . . . at his death he leaves his country open to enemies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Keld Zeruneith , Paul Russell GarrettPublisher: U Press Imprint: U Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.70cm Weight: 0.584kg ISBN: 9788793890497ISBN 10: 8793890494 Pages: 316 Publication Date: 31 July 2023 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationKeld Zeruneith (1941-), Emeritus Reader at the University of Copenhagen and member of the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters. Zeruneith is a poet, literary critic, historian, and prolific author, well known in Old Norse studies for his work on the sagas and in modern literary studies for his biographies of three famous Danish poets; he is equally well known in Classical studies for ^GThe Wooden Horse: The Liberation of the Western Mind, from Odysseus to Socrates^g (2007; original Danish 2002), for which he won Denmark's most prestigious literary award, the Sen Gyldendal Prize, in 2004. Zeruneith brings his considerable breadth of scholarly and linguistic expertise and depth of poetic and psychological insight and knowledge to bear upon Old English studies in ^GDe sidste tider: Hedenskab heroisme kristendom: en angelsaksisk overgangshistorie^g (The Last Times: Paganism Heroism Christianity: An Anglo-Saxon Transitional History, 2017). Written in Danish, Keld Zeruneith's ^GBeowulf: The Tragedy of a Hero: A Reading^g (^GBeowulf. En helts tragedie. En læsning^g) was first published in the English translation of Paul Russell Garrett (2023). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |