Scyld and Scef: Expanding the Analogues

Bruce, Alexander M.

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Scyld and Scef is the first comprehensive study of these heroic figures of Germanic legend, featured in much of the literature of the Middle Ages, including Beowulf , The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Edda . The authors argue that this duo represent a way that medieval Germanic peoples defined themselves in their literature. Divided into two sections, this volume explores the specific cultures from which Scyld and Scef rose and the forty-one manuscripts in which they appear.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781138995970
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	18 Dec 2015
DEWEY:	829.09
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	224
Weight:	356g
Height:	234mm
Width:	155mm
Spine width:	17mm