The Dating of Beowulf / / ed. by Colin Chase.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Boyle, Leonard E.,; Butler, Sharon,; Cable, Thomas,; Callander Murray, Alexander,; Cameron, Angus,; Chase, Colin,; Clemoes, Peter,; Crandell Amos, Ashley,; Di Paolo Healey, Antonette,; Frank, Roberta,; Goffart, Walter,; Howe, Nicholas,; Kiernan, Kevin S.,; McTurk, R.W.,; Page, R.I.,; Pope, John C.,; Stanley, E.G.,; Waite, Gregory,
• HerausgeberIn: Chase, Colin,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Toronto Old English Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)

The date of Beowulf, debated for almost a century, is a small question with large consequences. Does the poem provide us with an accurate if idealized view of early Germanic culture? Or is it rather a creature of nostalgia and imagination, born of the desire of a later age to create for itself a glo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Editor’s preface
• Abbreviations
• The Dating of Beowulf
• Opinions on the Date of Beowulf, 1815–1980
• The Eleventh-Century Origin of Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript
• The Nowell Codex and the Poem of Beowulf
• A Reconsideration of the Language of Beowulf
• Metrical Style as Evidence for the Date of Beowulf
• Hetware and Hugas: Datable Anachronisms in Beowulf
• Beowulf, the Danish Invasions, and Royal Genealogy
• The Audience of Beowulf and the Vikings
• Skaldic Verse and the Date of Beowulf
• Variation in Beowulf and the Poetic Edda: A Chronological Experiment
• Saints’ Lives, Royal Lives, and the Date of Beowulf
• Style as the Criterion for Dating the Composition of Beowulf
• On the Date of Composition of Beowulf
• The Date of Beowulf: Some Doubts and No Conclusions
• Afterword: The Uses of Uncertainty: On the Dating of Beowulf
• Index