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29 janvier 2021
- handle: 10670/1.833om1
- isbn: 9781783748273
- eisbn: 9791036560804
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Old English Old English heroic poem Beowulf Old Norse god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr Classics Literature LIT000000 DSSujets proches
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Edward Pettit, « 14. Grendel, His Mother and Other Moon-Monsters », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.833om1
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That Grendel and his mother—two ellorgæstas ‘alien visitors/spirits’ or ‘visitors/spirits from elsewhere’ (1349)—may have a mythologically lunar aspect is not readily apparent from Beowulf. If present, this aspect lies in the background, though it may have been more apparent to an Anglo-Saxon audience than it is today. It is chiefly further comparative evidence from Old English and Old Norse texts that now suggests this dimension to their nature. I have already adduced some of this evidence, ...