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A Critical Companion to Beowulf

Orchard, Andy

Beowulf is arguably the most remarkable and complex text to survive from the Anglo-Saxon world and, as such, has provoked a constant steam of scholastic debate. This detailed and heavily annotated study aims to guide the student through many of the theories that surround Beowulf as well as the epic's principal themes, linguistic styles and cultural and literary background. Chapters discuss the manuscript's transmission, style and structure, myth, religion, the heroes and villains, words and deeds, and the poet's aims. The study is full of extracts in Old English with a modern translation, and includes a concordance of repeated formulae and a useful bibliography. 396p, 6 b/w pls, 2 b/w figs, map, 4 tbs (Brewer 2003, Pb 2004)

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