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050	0	4	_aDL61 _b.B469 2022
050	0	4	_aPR1587
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aShippey, T. A., _e1
245	1	0	_aBeowulf and the North before the Vikings /Tom Shippey.
260			_aLeeds : _bArc Humanities Press, _c(c)2022.
300			_a1 online resource (viii, 127 pages.)
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aPast imperfect
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505	0	0	_aIntroduction : fantasy or history? -- _tPoetry and archaeology -- _tOld legend, new reality -- _tThe bigger picture -- _tThe non-national epic.
520	0		_aEver 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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630	0	0	_aBeowulf.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
700	1		_aProject Muse. _edistributor.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell