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BL
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Record Number
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858684
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Main Entry
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Niles, John D.
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Title & Author
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Old English heroic poems and the social life of texts /\ by John D. Niles.
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Publication Statement
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Turnhout :: Brepols,, ©2007.
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Series Statement
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Studies in the early Middle Ages ;; v. 20
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Page. NO
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xiii, 372 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm.
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ISBN
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2503520804
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: 9782503520803
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Contents
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Introduction : myths and texts -- Locating Beowulf in literary history -- Widsith, the Goths, and the anthropology of the past -- Anglo-Saxon heroic geography : how (on Earth) can it be mapped? -- The myth of the Anglo-Saxon oral poet -- Maldon and Mythopoesis -- Byrhtnoth's laughter and the poetics of gesture -- True stories and other lies -- Bede's Cædmon, "the man who had no story" (Irish tale-type 2412B) -- Heaney's Beowulf six years later.
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Subject
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Epic poetry, English (Old)-- History and criticism.
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Heroes in literature.
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Literature and society-- England-- History-- To 1500.
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Subject
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18.05 English literature.
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Subject
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Altenglisch
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Epic poetry, English (Old)
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Epische poëzie.
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Heldenepos
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Heroes in literature.
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Hjältar i litteraturen.
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Literature and society.
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Litteratur och samhälle-- England-- före 1500.
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Manners and customs.
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Zeithintergrund
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Epische poëzie.
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Heldenepen.
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England, Social life and customs, To 1066.
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Altenglisch.
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England, vardagsliv och traditioner, historia, före 1500.
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Subject
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England.
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Dewey Classification
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829.1009355
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LC Classification
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PR205.N56 2007
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NLM classification
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18.05bcl
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18.05.bcl
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HE 360rvk
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HH 1192rvk
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