Heathen Gods in Old English Literature - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780521030267

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by Richard North (Author), Simon Keynes (Editor), Andy Orchard (Editor)

Richard North offers a complete revision of our view of Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian paganism and mythology in the pre-Viking and Viking age. He discusses the pre-Christian gods of Bede's history of the Anglo-Saxon conversion with reference to a god known as Ingui. Using expert knowledge of comparative literary material from Old Norse-Icelandic and other Old Germanic languages, North reconstructs the slender Old English evidence in an imaginative and original treatment of poems such as "Deor" and "The Dream of the Rood."

Number of Pages: 392

Dimensions: 0.87 x 9 x 6 IN

Publication Date: November 02, 2006

$71.43

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