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Wir sind gerne für Sie daEver since Tolkien’s famous lecture in 1936, it has been generally accepted that the poem Beowulf is a fantasy, and of no use as a witness to real history. This book challenges that view, and argues that the poem provides a plausible, detailed, and consistent vision of pre-Viking history which is most unlikely to have been the poet’s invention, and which has moreover received strong corroboration from archaeology in recent years. Using the poem as a starting point, historical, archaeological, and legendary sources are combined to form a picture of events in the North in the fifth and sixth centuries: at once a Dark and a Heroic Age, and the time of the formation of nations. Among other things, this helps answer two long-unasked questions: why did the Vikings come as such a shock? And what caused the previous 250 years of security from raiders from the sea?
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781802700138
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-80270-013-8
- Verlag: ARC Humanities Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.08.2022
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2022
- Serie: Past Imperfect
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 136 g
- Seiten: 136
- Format (B x H x T): 112 x 173 x 11 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Geschichtswissenschaft
- Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
- Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Religionswissenschaft
- Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
- Religionsgeschichte
- Alteuropäische Religionen: Kelten, Germanen, Slawen, Balten
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Religionswissenschaft
- Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
- Religionsgeschichte
- Alteuropäische Religionen: Kelten, Germanen, Slawen, Balten