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Author Fjalldal, Magnús, author.

Title The long arm of coincidence : the frustrated connection between Beowulf and Grettis saga / Magnús Fjalldal
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 176 pages)
Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
Contents CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I: The Proposed Genetically Related Analogues -- 1 Determining Analogous and Genetically Related Material -- 2 The Making of Heroes and Monsters -- 3 The Hero's Fight against the Monsters -- 4 A Sword by Any Other Name -- 5 Hell and High Water -- Part II: To Cement a Relationship -- 6 The English Hypothesis -- 7 Panzer's 'Bear's Son' Thesis -- 8 The Common Origin Theory -- 9 The Big Bang Theory -- Part III: The Genetically Related Beowulf Analogues in Grettis saga in View of Icelandic Sources
""10 A Saga Author Shops Around: The Eclectic Composition of the Glámr and Sandhaugar Episodes""""11 Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""
Summary Annotation Scholars in Old Norse and Old English studies have for years sought to find a connection between BEOWULF and GRETTIS SAGA, despite great differences in the composition, time period, and country of origin of the two works. Here Magnus Fjalldal challenges old assumptions and makes constructive suggestions as to how seeming parallels could have arisen in two texts so separated by time, culture, and geography
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170) and index
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Subject Grettir Ásmundarson, 996-1031 -- Romances -- History and criticism
SUBJECT Grettir Ásmundarson, 996-1031 fast
Beowulf
Grettis saga. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91036230
Beowulf fast
Grettis saga fast
Grettis saga gnd
Beowulf gnd
Subject Mythology, Norse, in literature.
Comparative literature -- English (Old) and Old Norse
Comparative literature -- Old Norse and English (Old)
Epic poetry, English (Old) -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Mythology, Norse, in literature
Intertextualität
Grettis saga (anoniem)
Beowulf (anoniem)
Verwantschap.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Romances
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99159648
ISBN 9781442676800
1442676809
0802081282
9780802081285