Beowulf and the North Before the Vikings

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  • Author : T. A. Shippey
  • Release Date : 2022
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  • Genre : Civilization
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9781641899338
  • File Size : 38,38 MB

Beowulf and the North Before the Vikings by T. A. Shippey PDF Summary

Book Description: 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?

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