Martin Puhvel-Google Books Grendel's attack on Heorot and the resulting battle with Beowulf is. this episode by reference to the Celtic "Hand and the Child" folktale, which accounts for. The Anglo-Saxons and Beowulf
This book is the culmination of Ármann Jakobsson's work on a relatively neglected kings' saga, Morkinskinna, work earlier represented by, inter alia, his doctoral thesis Staður í nýjum heimi: konungasagan Morkinskinna (Reykjavík, 2002), and by his two-volume edition of Morkinskinna, done together with Þórður Ingi Guðjónsson, in the Íslenzk fornrit series, vols 23-24 (Reykjavík, 2011). The book under review, aimed at an international audience (see p. 9), is a welcome companion to this edition and also to the English translation of Morkinskinna by Theodore M. Andersson and Kari Ellen Gade, Islandica 51 (Ithaca, NY, 2000).Morkinskinna, 'rotten vellum', is the name given in modern times to
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