The Social Centrality of Women in Beowulf: A New Context
This paper examines the roles of the women in Beowulf, focusing on those of hostess, peaceweavers, and monsters. When read through an anthropological lens, Beowulf presents the female characters as being central both in the story itself and in the society presented in the poem.
An Education in the Mead-Hall : Beowulf’s Lessons for Young Warriors
This essay explores how Beowulf may have indoctrinated the young warriors hearing the tale. The poem prompts the geoguð (young warriors) to consider how they would respond in psychologically threatening situations, and it presents as their model Beowulf, who faces each risk bravely and is justly rewarded.
“The Wealth They Left Us”: Two Women Author Themselves through Others’ Lives in Beowulf
“The Wealth They Left Us”: Two Women Author Themselves through Others’ Lives in Beowulf Osborn, Marijane The Heroic Age Issue 5 Summer/Autumn 2001…
Wicked Queens and Cousin Strategies in Beowulf and Elsewhere
This essay sets the ‘Modthrytho Episode’ of Beowulf in the context of historical and legendary ‘wicked queens’ in Anglo-Saxon England
Beowulf and the Wills: Traces of Totemism?
Beowulf and the Wills: Traces of Totemism? Glosecki, Stephen O. The Heroic Age Issue 5 Summer/Autumn 2001 Abstract This paper accounts for the…
The Canonicity of Two Edgar Poems
The Canonicity of Two Edgar Poems Weale, J. C. The Heroic Age Issue 3 Summer 2000 Abstract Very often one encounters debate as…
From Caesarea to Eynsham: A Consideration of the Proposed Route(s) of the Admonition to a Spiritual Son to Anglo-Saxon England
From Caesarea to Eynsham: A Consideration of the Proposed Route(s) of the Admonition to a Spiritual Son to Anglo-Saxon England Locherbie-Cameron, M.A. The…
Shaping Anglo-Saxon Lordship in the Heroic Literature of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
Shaping Anglo-Saxon Lordship in the Heroic Literature of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries Hill, John The Heroic Age Issue 3 Summer 2000 Abstract…
C. Scott Littleton and Linda A. Malcor’s From Scythia to Camelot
C. Scott Littleton and Linda A. Malcor’s From Scythia to Camelot Mair, Victor H. The Heroic Age, Issue 2, Autumn/Winter 1999 Abstract Given…
Lucius Artorius Castus: Part 2: The Battles in Britain
Lucius Artorius Castus: Part 2: The Battles in Britain Malcor, Linda A. The Heroic Age, Issue 2, Autumn/Winter 1999 Abstract Even though Lucius…