Grendel’s Mother

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Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785350102
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Book Synopsis Grendel’s Mother by : Susan Signe Morrison

Download or read book Grendel’s Mother written by Susan Signe Morrison and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amber bead. A gold and glass drinking horn. A ring engraved with Thor’s hammer – all artifacts from a Germanic tribe that carved a space for itself through brutality and violence on a windswept land . Brimhild weaves peace and conveys culture to the kingdom, until the secret of her birth threatens to tear apart the fragile political stability. This is her story – the tale of Grendel’s Mother. She is no monster as portrayed in the Old English epic, Beowulf. We learn her side of the story and that of her defamed child. We see the many passages of her life: the brine-baby who floated mysteriously to shore; the hall-queen presiding over the triumphant building of the golden hall Heorot and victim of sexual and political betrayal; the exiled mere-wife, who ekes out a marginal life by an uncanny bog as a healer and contends with the menacing Beowulf; and the seer, who prophesizes what will occur to her adopted people. We learn how the invasion by brutal men is not a fairy tale, but a disaster doomed to cycle relentlessly through human history. Only the surviving women can sing poignant laments, preserve a glittering culture, and provide hope for the future.

Beowulf

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111105
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Beowulf written by and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.

Grendel's Mother

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Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1604942541
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Grendel's Mother by : Ralph Bourne

Download or read book Grendel's Mother written by Ralph Bourne and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schylla, the terrible mother of the vile beast called Grendel, tears herself painfully from the bloody caverns of hell. She seeks revenge for the murder of her child, and she must protect innocent nature from the brutal slaughter of men. Grendel's Mother provides a differing vision of the stuggles of Beowulf. Beyond violent revenge and savage death, the goddess seeks a confused peace and a strange, convoluted love.

Grendel's Mother

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ISBN 13 : 9780997422337
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Grendel's Mother by : Diana Stout

Download or read book Grendel's Mother written by Diana Stout and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of social injustice, where a girl is sacrificed to the dragon for bringing shame to her family and community, and finds herself alive, alone in the wild, where she discovers special skills tied to her love of nature that enable her to survive, to give birth, and to raise a baby-deemed a monster-entirely on her own. Large Print edition.

The Mere Wife

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Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374715548
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mere Wife by : Maria Dahvana Headley

Download or read book The Mere Wife written by Maria Dahvana Headley and published by MCD. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers—a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran—fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife. From the perspective of those who live in Herot Hall, the suburb is a paradise. Picket fences divide buildings—high and gabled—and the community is entirely self-sustaining. Each house has its own fireplace, each fireplace is fitted with a container of lighter fluid, and outside—in lawns and on playgrounds—wildflowers seed themselves in neat rows. But for those who live surreptitiously along Herot Hall’s periphery, the subdivision is a fortress guarded by an intense network of gates, surveillance cameras, and motion-activated lights. For Willa, the wife of Roger Herot (heir of Herot Hall), life moves at a charmingly slow pace. She flits between mommy groups, playdates, cocktail hour, and dinner parties, always with her son, Dylan, in tow. Meanwhile, in a cave in the mountains just beyond the limits of Herot Hall lives Gren, short for Grendel, as well as his mother, Dana, a former soldier who gave birth as if by chance. Dana didn’t want Gren, didn’t plan Gren, and doesn’t know how she got Gren, but when she returned from war, there he was. When Gren, unaware of the borders erected to keep him at bay, ventures into Herot Hall and runs off with Dylan, Dana’s and Willa’s worlds collide.

Grendel

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307756785
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis Grendel by : John Gardner

Download or read book Grendel written by John Gardner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. "An extraordinary achievement."—New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called "one of the finest of our contemporary fictions."

Grendel and His Mother

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Publisher : Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780895032621
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (326 download)

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Book Synopsis Grendel and His Mother by : Nicholas E. Brink

Download or read book Grendel and His Mother written by Nicholas E. Brink and published by Baywood Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One cause of the behavioral, emotional and mental torment in a person's life is the psychological trauma that results from the actions and words of parents and others. This volume examines the effect of such trauma on a child's development and how the resulting torment eventually brings this child as an adult to psychotherapy.

Beowulf Beastslayer

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Publisher : Snowbooks Adventure Gamebooks
ISBN 13 : 9781911390664
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)

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Book Synopsis Beowulf Beastslayer by : Jonathan Green

Download or read book Beowulf Beastslayer written by Jonathan Green and published by Snowbooks Adventure Gamebooks. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Listen! We of the Spear-Danes in the days of yore, of those clan-kings, heard of their glory, how those nobles performed courageous deeds!" So begins the greatest fantasy story of them all, the Old English epic poem Beowulf . It is a story that has fascinated people throughout the ages inspiring the likes of J. R. R. Tolkien, Seamus Heaney and Neil Gaiman. King Hrothgar's great golden mead-hall Heorot is under a curse, subject to attacks by the mirth-hating night-stalker Grendel. None are capable of destroying the monster, although many have tried, until Beowulf and his company of Geatish warriors cross the sail-road and land on Danish shores... Beowulf Beastslayer is a brand new take on the Anglo-Saxon epic, re-imagining the events described in the poem as an adventure gamebook. Will you follow the course of events as laid down by the scops and skalds of old, or will you choose a different path and forge your own legend? Beowulf Beastslayer! A tale of heroes... A tale of monsters... A legend reborn!

Grendel's Guide to Love and War

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Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0399555544
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Grendel's Guide to Love and War by : A. E. Kaplan

Download or read book Grendel's Guide to Love and War written by A. E. Kaplan and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A tale of rivalry, romance, and existential angst"--Jacket.

A Beowulf Handbook

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803212374
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis A Beowulf Handbook by : Robert E. Bjork

Download or read book A Beowulf Handbook written by Robert E. Bjork and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Beowulf

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ISBN 13 : 9789357240789
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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The Shapes of Early English Poetry

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110626608
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis The Shapes of Early English Poetry by : Eric Weiskott

Download or read book The Shapes of Early English Poetry written by Eric Weiskott and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.

Beowulf

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ISBN 13 : 9781299268784
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (687 download)

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Stories of Beowulf

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
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Book Synopsis Stories of Beowulf by : Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

Download or read book Stories of Beowulf written by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry

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Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843841418
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (414 download)

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Book Synopsis Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry by : Conor McCarthy

Download or read book Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry written by Conor McCarthy and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2008 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seamus Heaney's engagement with medieval literature constitutes a significant body of work by a major poet including a landmark translation of "Beowulf". This title examines both Heaney's direct translations and his adaptation of medieval material in his original poems.

Beowulf & Grendel

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Publisher : Watkins Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Beowulf & Grendel written by John Grigsby and published by Watkins Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Heaven's Mirror and The Mars Mystery presents evidence that the legend of Beowulf originated in an ancient human sacrifice ritual that was suppressed in Britain and later found expression in this compelling tale.

The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf'

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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783748303
Total Pages : 344 pages
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Book Synopsis The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' by : Edward Pettit

Download or read book The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' written by Edward Pettit and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its likely relatives within Beowulf and beyond, drawing on the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature, liturgy, archaeology, astronomy, folklore and comparative mythology. In Part I, Pettit explores the complex of connotations surrounding this image (from icicles to candles and crosses) by examining a range of medieval sources, and argues that the giant sword may function as a visual motif in which pre-Christian Germanic concepts and prominent Christian symbols coalesce. In Part II, Pettit investigates the broader Germanic background to this image, especially in relation to the god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr, and explores the capacity of myths to recur and endure across time. Drawing on an eclectic range of narrative and linguistic evidence from Northern European texts, and on archaeological discoveries, Pettit suggests that the image of the giant sword, and the characters and events associated with it, may reflect an elemental struggle between the sun and the moon, articulated through an underlying myth about the theft and repossession of sunlight. The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' is a welcome contribution to the overlapping fields of Beowulf-scholarship, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and Germanic philology. Not only does it present a wealth of new readings that shed light on the craft of the Beowulf-poet and inform our understanding of the poem’s major episodes and themes; it further highlights the merits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach alongside a comparative vantage point. As such, The Waning Sword will be compelling reading for Beowulf-scholars and for a wider audience of medievalists.