A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1935 - 1448 pages |
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... Beowulf . " The date of the compilation of this work makes it the most ancient epic of the Teutonic world , and historically its subject takes us back to the first half of the sixth century . It speaks of the victory of the Franks over ...
... Beowulf . " The date of the compilation of this work makes it the most ancient epic of the Teutonic world , and historically its subject takes us back to the first half of the sixth century . It speaks of the victory of the Franks over ...
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... Beowulf be not an adaptation into Anglo - Saxon of a Scandinavian legend , a hypothesis supported by the fact that the chief incidents of the story of Beowulf , the slayer of monsters , recur in the Icelandic saga Grettir . It is ...
... Beowulf be not an adaptation into Anglo - Saxon of a Scandinavian legend , a hypothesis supported by the fact that the chief incidents of the story of Beowulf , the slayer of monsters , recur in the Icelandic saga Grettir . It is ...
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... Beowulf tears off an arm of this monster , who is mortally wounded and flees to his den to die , whereupon all is joy in victory and deliverance . But Grendel's mother avenges her son . She renews the attacks on Heorot , and Beowulf ...
... Beowulf tears off an arm of this monster , who is mortally wounded and flees to his den to die , whereupon all is joy in victory and deliverance . But Grendel's mother avenges her son . She renews the attacks on Heorot , and Beowulf ...
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CHAPTER | 3 |
TO 1578 | 217 |
AND THE MIRROR FOR MAGISTRATESGascoigne | 228 |
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