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Beowulf was the product of a society almost as remote as the warworld culture it celebrates. This study shows that it is both essential and possible to accept the radically unfamiliar social scene of the poem and to recognize the gulf between its assumptions and our own. The poet's acceptance of rituamized drunkenness, which has led translators into decorous paraphrase, and his evident glorification of violence are only two of the most obvious examples of the difficulties in understanding Beowulf. Mr Shippey confronts such alen attitudes and gives a reading of the poem which follows Anglo-Saxon notions of 'symbolism', 'irony' and 'poetry' rather than their anachronistic modern counterparts

Poetry --- Old English literature --- Beowulf --- anno 1000-1099 --- Epic poetry, English (Old) --- Poésie épique anglaise --- History and criticism --- Vieil anglais --- Histoire et critique --- Dragons in literature --- Heroes in literature --- Scandinavia --- In literature --- Poésie épique anglaise --- Beowulf. --- Epic poetry, English (Old) - History and criticism --- Scandinavia - In literature

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Didactic poetry, English (Old). --- English poetry --- Modernized versions. --- Didactic poetry, English (Old) --- -820 "06/10" --- Anglo-Saxon didactic poetry --- Didactic poetry, Anglo-Saxon --- English didactic poetry, Old --- Old English didactic poetry --- 820 "06/10" --- Anglo-Saxon poetry --- English poetry, Old --- Old English poetry --- 820 "06/10" Engelse literatuur--?"06/10" --- Engelse literatuur--?"06/10" --- Modernized versions --- English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Modernized versions --- English poetry - Old English, ca. 450-1100

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Ever since Tolkien's famous lecture in 1936, it has been generally accepted that the poem Beowulf is a fantasy, and of no use as a witness to real history. This book challenges that view, and argues that the poem provides a plausible, detailed, and consistent vision of pre-Viking history which is most unlikely to have been the poet's invention, and which has moreover received strong corroboration from archaeology in recent years. Using the poem as a starting point, historical, archaeological, and legendary sources are combined to form a picture of events in the North in the fifth and sixth centuries: at once a Dark and a Heroic Age, and the time of the formation of nations. Among other things, this helps answer two long-unasked questions: why did the Vikings come as such a shock? And what caused the previous 250 years of security from raiders from the sea?

LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval. --- The early North, Geatas, Tolkien, Scandinavia,. --- Beowulf. --- Scandinavia --- Civilization --- History. --- History --- Civilization. --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Beowulf --- To 1397 --- Europe --- Europe, Northern --- Scandinavie --- Europe septentrionale --- Northern Europe --- Antiquities. --- Histoire --- Civilisation. --- Antiquités. --- Civilization, Viking. --- Mythology, Norse. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Scandinavia.

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Science fiction, American --- Science fiction, English --- Science-fiction américaine --- Science-fiction anglaise