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1 Hard copies of all the materials in black bold will be sent to participants. Participants should make arrangements to buy or borrow the required books, indicated below in red. All other texts will be made available through electronic reserve. Selected Primary Sources Bede. Bede s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Edited by Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors. New York: Oxford University Press, [Selections] Byock, Jesse L., trans. The Saga of Hrolf Kraki. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, Clark, George, trans. The Tale of Thorstein Bull s Leg. In Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Vol. IV, edited by Viðar Hreinsson, Reykjavík: Leifur Eiríksson Publishing, Faulkes, Anthony, trans. The Saga of Grettir. In Three Icelandic Outlaw Sagas, edited by Anthony Faulkes, London: Everyman Paperbacks, Fox, Denton, and Hermann Pálsson, trans. Grettir s Saga. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Franks Casket. Google Cultural Institute. qbw. Fulk, R. D., Robert E. Bjork, and John D. Niles, ed. Klaeber s Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg. 4 th ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Gustav Neckel, ed. Hávamál. In Edda: Die Lieder des Codex Regius nebst verwandten Denkmälern. I: Text th ed. Revised by Hans Kuhn, th ed. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, Helmet from Benty Grange. I Dig Sheffield: Digging Around Sheffield and the Peaks Larrington, Carolyne, trans. Poetic Edda. Oxford World Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Maxwell, Anthony, trans. Gold-Thorir s Saga. In Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Vol. III, edited by Viðar Hreinsson, Reykjavík: Leifur Eiríksson Publishing, Pálsson, Hermann and Paul Edwards, trans. The Saga of Arrow Odd. In Seven Viking Romances. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, Page 1

2 Porter, John, trans. Jokul Buason s Tale. In Complete Sagas of Icelanders, Vol. III, edited by Viðar Hreinsson, Reykjavík: Leifur Eiríksson Publishing, O Connor, Ralph, trans. The Saga of Hjálmþér and Ölvir. In Icelandic Histories & Romances. Rev. 2 nd ed. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing Ltd., Snorri Sturluson. Edda. Translated by Anthony Faulkes. London: Everyman, Staffordshire Hoard. Birmingham Museums Trust. Stitt, J. Michael. Beowulf and the Bear s Son: Epic, Saga, and Fairytale in Northern Germanic Tradition. New York: Garland, Tacitus, P. Cornelius. Germany: Germania. Edited and translated by Herbert W. Benario. Warminster: Aris and Phillips, [Selections] The York Helmet. Yorkshire Museum. York Museums and Gallery Trust. Waggoner, Ben, trans. The Saga of Grim Shaggy-Cheek. In The Hrafnista sagas. New Haven, CT: The Troth, The Saga of Halfdan, Brana s Foster Son. In Sagas of Giants and Heroes. New Haven, CT: The Troth, The Saga of Ketill Salmon. In The Hrafnista sagas. New Haven, CT: The Troth, The Saga of Sorli the Strong. In Sagas of Giants and Heroes. New Haven, CT: The Troth, Page 2

3 Selected Secondary Literature Aertsen, Henk, and Rolf H. Bremmer, eds. Companion to Old English Poetry. Amsterdam: VU University Press, Andersson, Theodore M. Sources and Analogues. In A Beowulf Handbook, edited by Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Arent, Margaret A. The Heroic Pattern: Old Germanic Helmets, Beowulf, and Grettis saga. In Old Norse Literature and Mythology: A Symposium, edited by Edgar C. Polomé, Austin: University of Texas Press, Bailey, Richard N. Gods, Heroes and Christians. In Viking Age Sculpture in Northern England, London: Collins, Bailey, Richard N. Scandinavian Myth on Viking-period Stone Sculpture in England. In Old Norse Myths, Literature and Society: Proceedings of the 11 th International Saga Conference 2-7 July 2000, University of Sydney, edited by Geraldine Barnes and Margaret Clunies Ross, Viking Collection Baker, Peter S., ed. The Beowulf Reader: Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England. New York: Garland, Barnes, Daniel R. Folktale Morphology and the Structure of Beowulf. Speculum 45, no. 3 (July 1970): Barnes, Geraldine. The Medieval Anglophile: England and Its Rulers in Old Norse History and Saga. Parergon 10, no. 2 (1992): Battaglia, Frank. Not Christianity Versus Paganism, but Hall Versus Bog: The Great Shift in Early Scandinavian Religion and Its Implications for Beowulf. In Anglo-Saxons and the North: Essays Reflecting the Theme of the 10th Meeting of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists in Helsinki, August 2001, edited by Matti Kilpiö, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Jane Roberts, and Olga Timofeeva, Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, Bennett, Helen T. The Postmodern Hall in Beowulf: Endings Embedded in Beginnings. Heroic Age 12 (May 2009). Benson, Larry. The Pagan Coloring in Beowulf. In The Beowulf Reader, edited by Peter Baker, London: Routledge, Originally published in Old English Poetry: Fifteen Essays, edited by Robert P. Creed. Providence: Brown University Press, Page 3

4 Bessinger, Jess B., Jr., and Robert F. Yeager, eds. Approaches to Teaching Beowulf. New York: Modern Language Association, Biggs, Frederick M. The Politics of Succession in Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon England. Speculum 80, no. 3 (2005): Bjork, Robert E. Scandinavian Relations. In A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature, edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine M. Treharne, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Bjork, Robert E., and John D. Niles, eds. A Beowulf Handbook. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Blackburn, F.A. The Christian Coloring in Beowulf. In An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism, edited by Lewis E. Nicholson, South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, Bosworth, Joseph, and T. Northcote Toller. An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Brink, S., and N. Price, eds. The Viking World. London: Routledge, Brodeur, Arthur G. Variation. In The Art of Beowulf, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, Calder, Daniel G. The Study of Style in Old English Poetry: A Historical Introduction. In Old English Poetry: Essays on Style, edited by Daniel G. Calder, Berkeley: University of California Press, Carruthers, Leo. Kingship and Heroism in Beowulf. In Heroes and Heroines in Medieval English Literature: A Festschrift Presented to André Crépin on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, edited by Leo Carruthers, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, Carver, M. Reflections on the Meanings of Monumental Barrows in Anglo-Saxon England. In Burial in Early Medieval England and Wales, edited by S. Lucy and A. Reynolds, Leeds: Maney, Chaney, William A. The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England: The Transition from Paganism to Christianity. Berkeley: University of California Press, Chickering, Howell, Allen J. Frantzen, and R. F. Yeager, eds. Teaching Beowulf in the Twenty- First Century. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, Page 4

5 Cleasby, Richard, and Gudbrand Vigfusson. An Icelandic-English Dictionary. 2 nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clunies Ross, Margaret. Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Old Icelandic Literature and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Davidson, Hilda R. E. The Hill of the Dragon: Anglo-Saxon Burial Mounds in Literature and Archaeology. Folklore 61 (1950): and plate X. Davis, Glenn. Beowulf in Fourth Period: Anglo-Saxon England in the High School Classroom. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching 14, no. 2 (Fall 2007): de Looze, Laurence. The Outlaw Poet, the Poetic Outlaw: Self-consciousness in Grettis saga Ásmundason. Arkiv för nordisk filologi 106 (1991): Drout, Michael D. C. Blood and Deeds: The Inheritance Systems in Beowulf. Studies in Philology 104 (2007): Dumville, David N. The West Saxon Genealogical Regnal List and the Chronology of Early Wessex. Peritia 4 (1985): Emanuelson, Karen. A Hrunting We Will Go: Beowulf s Sword and Norse Weapons Technology. In The Image of Technology: Proceedings [from the] Conference [of the] Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, edited by Will Wright and Steven Kaplan, Pueblo, CO: Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado State U-Pueblo, Fjalldal, Magnús. The Long Arm of Coincidence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Fuglesang, S. H. Viking and Medieval Amulets in Scandinavia. Fornvännen årgång, 84 (1989): Fulk, Robert D. An Eddic Analogue to the Scyld Scefing Story. Review of English Studies (1989): , ed. Interpretations of Beowulf: A Critical Anthology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Garde, Judith N. Christian and Folkloric Tradition in Beowulf: Death and the Dragon Episode. Literature and Theology 11 (1997): Page 5

6 Garmonsway, G. N. Anglo-Saxon Heroic Attitudes. In Franciplegius: Medieval and Linguistic Studies in Honor of Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr., edited by Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. and Robert P. Creed, New York: New York University Press, Garmonsway, George N., and Jacqueline Simpson, trans. The Fight against Manlike Monsters. In Beowulf and Its Analogues, New York: E.P. Dutton, Godden, Malcolm, and Michael Lapidge, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Gómez-Calderon, María José. Beowulf in Spanish. In Beowulf at Kalamazoo, edited by Jana Schulman and Paul Szarmach, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Gräslund, A-S. The Material Culture of Old Norse Religion. In The Viking World, edited by Stefan Brink and Neil Price, London: Routledge, Gwara, Scott. Heroic Identity in the World of Beowulf. Leiden and Boston: Brill, Hadley, D. M. Masculinity. In A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies, edited by R. Trilling and J. Stodnick, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, Warriors, Heroes and Companions: Negotiating Masculinity in Viking-Age England. Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 15 (2008): Harke, H. The Circulation of Weapons in Anglo-Saxon Society. In Rituals of Power: From Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages, edited by F. Theuws and J. Nelson, Leiden: Brill, Harris, Joseph. A Nativist Approach to Beowulf: The Case of Germanic Elegy. In Companion to Old English Poetry, edited by Hank Aertsen and Rolf H. Bremmer, Amsterdam: VU University Press, Beowulf s Last Words. Speculum 67, no. 1 (1992): Harris, Richard. The Deaths of Grettir and Grendel: A New Parallel. Scripta Islandica 24 (1973): Hawes, Janice. The Monstrosity of Heroism: Grettir Ásmundarson as an Outsider. Scandinavian Studies 80, no. 1 (2008): Hill, Thomas D. Beowulf s Roman Rites: Roman Ritual and Germanic Tradition. JEGP 106 (2007): Page 6

7 Hines, John. Beowulf and Archaeology Revisited. In Aedificia Nova: Studies in Honor of Rosemary Cramp, edited by Catherine E. Karkov and Helen Damico, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Howard, Elizabeth. Beowulf was not God Cyning. In Geardagum 29 (2009): Hultgard, A. The Religion of the Vikings. In The Viking World, edited by Stefan Brink and Neil Price, London: Routledge, Hume, Kathryn. The Concept of the Hall in Old English Poetry. Anglo-Saxon England 3 (1974): From Saga to Romance: The Use of Monsters in Old Norse Literature. Studies in Philology 77, no. 1 (1980): The Thematic Design of Grettis saga. JEGP 73 (1974): Irving, Edward B. Christian and Pagan Elements. In A Beowulf Handbook, edited by Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Johnston, George. On Translation-II. Saga-Book 15, pt. 4 (1961): Jorgensen, Peter. Additional Icelandic Analogues to Beowulf. In Sagnaskemmtun: Studies in Honour of Hermann Pálsson on his 65th birthday, 26th May 1986, edited by Rudolf Simek, Jónas Kristjánsson, and Hans Bekker-Nielsen, Vienna: Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Beowulf s Swimming Contest with Breca: Old Norse Parallels. Folklore 89, no. 1 (1978): The Two-Troll Variant of the Bear s Son Folktale in Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra and Gríms saga loðinkinna. Arv 31 (1975): Joy, Eileen, and Mary Ramsey, eds. The PostModern Beowulf: A Critical Casebook. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, Karkov, Catherine E. Object and Voice. In The Art of Anglo-Saxon England, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, Kennedy, John. Translating the Sagas: Two Hundred Years of Challenge and Response. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, Kightley, Michael R. Reinterpreting Threats to Face: The Use of Politeness in Beowulf, ll Neophilologus 93 (2009): Page 7

8 Knútsson, Pétur. Beowulf and the Icelandic Conquest of England. Det norrøne og det nationale: studier i brugen af Islands gamle litteratur i nationale sammenhænge i Norge, Sverige, Island, Storbritannien, Tyskland og Danmark, edited by Annette Lassen, Reykjavik: Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur í erlendum tungumálum, Kries, Susanne. Westward I Came Across the Sea : Anglo-Scandinavian History Through Scandinavian Eyes. Leeds Studies in English n.s. 34 (2003): Lang, J. Sigurd and Welland in Pre-Conquest Carving from Northern England. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 48 (1976): Liberman, Anatoly. Beowulf Grettir. In Germanic Dialects: Linguistic and Philological Investigations, edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Thomas Krömmelbein, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, Liuzza, Roy M. Beowulf in Translation: Problems and Possibilities. In Beowulf in Our Time: Teaching Beowulf in Translation, edited by Mary K. Ramsay, Old English Newsletter Subsidia 31. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Magennis, Hugh. Translating Beowulf: Modern Versions in English Verse. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, Maxwell, Ian. On Translation-I, A Review. Saga-Book 15, pt. 4 (1961): Mayr-Harting, Henry. The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, McConchie, R. Grettir Ásmundarson s Fight with Kárr the Old: a Neglected Beowulf Analogue. English Studies 63 (1982): McTurk, Rory, ed. A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, Mitchell, Stephen. Heroic Sagas and Ballads. Myth and Poetics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Nicholson, Lewis, ed. An Anthology of Beowulf Criticism. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, Niles, John D., ed. Beowulf and Lejre. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 323. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, Page 8

9 ---. Pagan Survivals and Popular Belief. In The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature, edited by M. Godden and M. Lapidge, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, O Brien O Keeffe, Katherine. Diction, Variation, the Formula. In A Beowulf Handbook, edited by Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, O Donoghue, Heather. Heaney, Beowulf, and the Medieval Literature of the North. Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney, edited by Bernard O Donoghue, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, Olsen, Alexandra H. The Ides, the Goddess, and Female Identity in Anglo-Saxon England. In Geardagum 28 (2008): Opland, Jeff. A Beowulf Analogue in Njáls saga, Scandinavian Studies 45 (1973): Orchard, Andy. A Critical Companion to Beowulf. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, Grettir and Grendel Again. In Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the Beowulf-Manuscript, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Myth and Legend. In A Critical Companion to Beowulf, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, Oswald, Dana M. Wigge Under Wætere : Beowulf s Revision of the Fight with Grendel s Mother. Exemplaria 21 (2009): Phillpotts, Bertha S. Wyrd and Providence in Anglo-Saxon Thought. Essays & Studies 13 (1928): Price, N. Belief and Ritual. In Viking, edited by G. Williams, M. Wenmhoff and P. Pentz, Copenhagen: National Museum of Denmark, Passing into Poetry: Viking-Age Mortuary Drama and the Origins of Norse Mythology. Medieval Archaeology 54 (2010): Puhvel, Martin. The Aquatic Context in Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra and Beowulf s Adventure with Breca. Any Connection? Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 99 (1998): Page 9

10 Pulsiano, Phillip, and Elaine M. Treharne, eds. A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, Rauer, Christine. Beowulf and the Dragon: Parallels and Analogues. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, Renoir, Alain. Oral-Formulaic Context: Implications for the Comparative Criticism of Medieval Texts. In Oral Traditional Literature: A Festschrift for Albert Bates Lord, edited by Robert P. Creed, Columbus: Slavica, Rosenberg, Bruce A. Folktale Morphology and the Structure of Beowulf: A Counterproposal. Journal of the Folklore Institute XI, no. 3 (March 1975): Reconstructed Folktales as Literary Sources. In Historical Studies and Literary Criticism, edited by Jerome J. McGann, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Rothauser, Britt C. L. Winter in Heorot: Looking at Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of Age and Kingship through the Character of Hrothgar. In Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic, edited by Albrecht Classen, Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture 2. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, Sayers, William. Cei, Unferth, and Access to the Throne. English Studies 90 (2009): Schaefer, Ursula. Rhetoric and Style. In A Beowulf Handbook, edited by Robert E. Bjork and John D. Niles, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Scheil, Andrew. The Historiographic Dimensions of Beowulf. JEGP 107 (2008): Schulman, Jana K., and Paul E. Szarmach, eds. Beowulf at Kalamazoo: Essays on Translation and Performance. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Schulman, Jana K. Teaching Beowulf in the Context of Old Norse. In Teaching Beowulf in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Howell Chickering and Allen J. Frantzen, et al., Tempe, AZ: ACMRS, Translating Beowulf: Translators Crouched and Dangers Rampant. Medieval and Early Modern English Studies 12, no. 1 (June 2004): Seeberg, Axel. Five Kings. Saga-Book of the Viking Society 20 ( ): Sigurðsson, Gísli. On the Classification of Eddic Heroic Poetry in View of the Oral Theory. In Poetry in the Scandinavian Middle Ages: The Seventh International Page 10

11 Saga Conference. Spoleto, 4-10 September 1988, edited by Teresa Paroli, Spoleto: Centro Italiano di studi sull alto medioevo, Orality Harnessed: How to Read Written Sagas from an Oral Culture? Oral Art Forms and Their Passage into Writing, Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, Past Awareness in Christian Environments: Source-Critical Ideas about Memories of the Pagan Past. Scandinavian Studies 85, no. 3 (Fall 2013): Poet, Singer of Tales, Storyteller, and Author. Modes of Authorship in the Middle Ages, edited by Slavica Rankovic, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Snorri s Edda: The Sky described in Mythological Terms. In Nordic Mythologies: Interpretations, Intersections, and Institutions, edited by Timothy R. Tangherlini, Berkeley and Los Angeles: North Pinehurst Press, Völuspá as the Product of an Oral Tradition: What does that Entail? In The Nordic Apocalypse: Approaches to Völuspá and Nordic Days of Judgement, edited by Terry Gunnell and Annette Lassen, Turnhout: Brepols, Sisam, Kenneth. Anglo-Saxon Royal Genealogies. Proceedings of the British Academy 39 (1953): Sutton, John William. Beowulfiana: Modern Adaptations of Beowulf. Rochester, NY: Robbins Library, University of Rochester, Swanton, Michael. Heroes, Heroism, and Heroic Literature. Essays and Studies by Members of the English Association 30 (1977): Thompson, Stith. Motif-Index of Folk Literature. 6 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Thornbury, E. V. Eald enta geweorc and the Relics of Empire: Revisiting the Dragon s Lair in Beowulf. Quaestio 1 (2000): Wachsler, Arthur A. Grettir s Fight with a Bear: Another Neglected Analogue of Beowulf in the Grettis Sag[a] Asmundarsonar. English Studies 66 (1985): Wanner, Kevin J. Warriors, Wyrms, and Wyrd: The Paradoxical Fate of the Germanic Hero/King in Beowulf. Essays in Medieval Studies 16 (1999): Page 11

12 Watkins, Calvert. How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, [Selections] Waugh, Robin. Literacy, Royal Power, and King-Poet Relations in Old English and Old Norse Compositions. Comparative Literature 49 (1997): Webster, Leslie, Christopher Sparey-Green, Patrick Périn, and Catherine Hills. The Staffordshire (Ogley Hay) Hoard: Problems of Interpretation. Antiquity 85, no. 327 (2011): Wilson, David M. The Vikings and Their Use of Wealth in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Saga och Sed (1982): Winroth, Anders. Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants, and Missionaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, Page 12