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Grendel’s Mere, Beowulf’s Dive, and the Visio Sancti Pauli

Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
According to Hrothgar’s account of Grendel’s mere, every night one can see there fȳr on flōde, a phrase often translated as ‘fire on the water’. This fire, which the king describes as a nīðwundor (a dreadful wonder), has traditionally been seen by ...
Rafael Pascual
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Incontrare Grendel al cinema. Riscrivere il Beowulf in un altro luogo e in un altro tempo

Between, 2011
As an epic poem Beowulf is a literary space of encounters, but in comparison to the Classical models, the Iliad and the Odyssey, it does not require the extraneousness of the place where the meeting or the clash happens. The threat is at the door.
Francesco Giusti
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Metrical Positions and their Linguistic Realisations in Old Germanic Metres: A Typological Overview

Studia Metrica et Poetica, 2014
This paper provides a typological account of Old Germanic metre by investigating its parametric variations that largely determine the metrical identities of the Old English Beowulf, the Old Saxon Heliand, and Old Norse eddic poetry (composed in ...
Seiichi Suzuki
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Tolkien, Eucatastrophe, and the Re-Creation of Medieval Legend [PDF]

, 2017
Using comparative literary analysis, this essay examines three case studies from J.R.R. Tolkien’s oeuvre, in which Tolkien practiced eucatastrophic rewriting: his folk-tale, “Sellic Spell,” in which he re-creates the Old English poem Beowulf; his poem ...
Beal, Jane, PhD
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Beowulf's Tears of Fatherhood [PDF]

, 1998
The figure of Hrothgar, aging king of the Danes, forces an analysis of the relationships among age, maleness, and masculinity in Beowulf. Masculine characters, while enacting the poem's complex reciprocities and social transactions in the hall and on the
Mary Dockray-Miller
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Sad men in Beowulf

Dating Beowulf, 2019
The ink spilled defining weeping as women’s work in Beowulf far exceeds the volume of their tears. We have made too much of the summary line at the opening of the Finnsburh episode declaring Hildeburh a ‘geomuru ides’ (sad woman) (1075b) as ‘meotodsceaft
Robin Norris
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Why “Real men don't speak French”: Deconstructing cultural attitudes to a language by historicizing their discursive formations

The Modern Language Journal, Volume 109, Issue 2, Page 389-406, Summer 2025.
Abstract Guided by Foucault's concept of “discursive formations,” the study reported here draws on primary archival and secondary source material to examine how French has been discursively shaped in England and in relation to English. Unpacking sociohistorical constructions of sameness–difference offers a productive frame to explore ideological ...
Simon Coffey
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Lattice QCD on a Beowulf Cluster [PDF]

, 1999
Using commodity component personal computers based on Alpha processor and commodity network devices and a switch, we built an 8-node parallel computer. GNU/Linux is chosen as an operating system and message passing libraries such as PVM, LAM, and MPICH ...
Kim, Seyong
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THE ALLEGED MURDER OF HRETHRIC IN BEOWULF

Traditio, 2019
A scenario well known to Beowulf scholars alleges that after Beowulf has slain the monsters and gone home, Hrothulf, nephew of the Danish king Hrothgar, will murder prince Hrethric to gain the throne when the old king dies.
M. Osborn
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Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 183-219, May 2025.
This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that this fragment was produced in Bede’s monastery of Wearmouth‐Jarrow in the first decades of the eighth century, at roughly the same time as the production ...
Samuel Cardwell
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