Scyld and Scef

Scyld and Scef

Author: Alexander M. Bruce
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Edition: 1
Published date: 2014
ISBN: 0815339046

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Scyld and Scef is the first comprehensive study of these heroic figures of Germanic legend, featured in much of the literature of the Middle Ages, including Beowulf, TheAnglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Edda. The authors argue that this duo represent a way that medieval Germanic peoples defined themselves in their literature. Divided into two sections, this volume explores the specific cultures from which Scyld and Scef rose and the forty-one manuscripts in which they appear.

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