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People of the Dawn
Sweden ́s great saga of the Viking Age, The Viking Slave Trilogy, is steeped in Norse myth and pagan ritual recounting the sensual but often cruel demands of the gods Odin, Thor, and Frey.
Klaeber's Beowulf and The Fight at Finnsburg
Features an introduction and a commentary that incorporates the scholarship on "Beowulf" that has appeared since 1950. This work includes detailed bibliographic guidance to discussion of textual cruces, as well as to modern and contemporary critical concerns. It also addresses aids to pronunciation and advances in the study of the poem's language.
The Cynewulf Reader
The Cynewulf Reader is a collection of classic and original essays presenting a comprehensive view of the elusive Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, his language, and his work.
Cynewulf
Two original essays and 16 published since 1950 offer a comprehensive view of Cynewulf, his language, and his poetry. The collection contains important new statements on dates, provenance, and canon by R.D. Fulk and Patrick W. Conner, four influential essays that thoroughly explore Cynewulf's runic signature and poetic style, and major contributions to our understanding of the four signed poems of Cynewulf, "Fates of the Apostles, Christ II, Juliana, and Elene." Three essays are devoted to each of these poems, and the essays themselves exemplify a broad range of approaches to this highly elusive Anglo-Saxon poet. Representative essays include J.E. Cross, "Cynewulf's Traditions about the Apos...
A Beowulf Handbook
The most revered work composed in Old English, Beowulf is one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition. Each chapter provides a history of the scholarly interest in a particular topic, a synthesis of present knowledge and opinion, and an analysis of scholarly work that remains to be done. Written to accommodate the needs of a broad audience, A Beowulf Handbook will be of value to nonspecialists who wish simply to read and enjoy Beowulf and to scholars at work on their own research. In its clear and comprehensive treatment of the poem and its scholarship, this book will prove an indispensable guide to readers and specialists for many years to come.
The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
An essential new reference work covering all aspects of European history, society, and culture from AD 500 to 1500.
The Old English Verse Saints' Lives
Critics have traditionally treated the Old English poems about saints as individual, autonomous works, relating but little to one another except in a broadly generic way. Bjork challenges the traditional view with an examination of the major structural feature that all the poems share: direct discourse. Syntactical and rhetorical analyses of the five poems reveal a consistent use of spech in creating stylistic norms or ideals - stylistic icons - in spiritually perfect figures. In all the poems the speech of the saints in formal, rhetorical, and balanced, the stylistic analogue both of their immutable fith and of the Christ-saint figural connection. The speech of all other characters is measured against this standard; their ability or inability to meet the saintly ideal in language reflects their level of spiritual awareness. The consistency with which these patterns appear sheds new light on the conventions of Old English poetic hagiography.
Sacrificial Smoke
An epic saga of chieftains, women, slaves, and Viking warriors that takes the reader deep into the heart of old Kingdom of the Swedes, where men and women face the often cruel demands of the gods Odin, Thor, and Frey.
Freya and Wulf
Based entirely on 6th- to late 9th-century Old English poetry, this novella weaves together a number of enigmatic lyrics and wisdom poems into a story of an Anglo-Saxon woman and her husband and daughter. Exiled on two different islands and trying desperately to reunite, they negotiate the stark realities of violent separation and loss, of love and death, and finally of hope and resilience in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
