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29 janvier 2021
- handle: 10670/1.ejb42s
- 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
World literature Western literature (Western countries) Belles-lettres Hero Hero and Leander Danish people Primary sources Forerunners Primary sources tepeCiter ce document
Edward Pettit, « 6. Ing, Ingvi-Freyr and Hroðgar », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.ejb42s
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An obvious place to start an investigation into the possible Germanic mythical background of Beowulf’s giant sword and related matters is with the poem’s most likely reference to a named heathen god or demigod, a certain Ing. According to Beowulf, Ing—or at least this name—was intimately connected with the Danes, whose king, Hroðgar, received the giant sword’s hilt from the poem’s hero. This chapter examines what sources tell us about Ing, his likely Old Norse manifestation as Ingvi/ Yngvi-Fr...