Two-Way Evidence in Beowulf Concerning Viking-Age Ships

The Flow of Emotion through Beowulf

“…Recent preoccupations with Beowulf include the provenance of the original manuscript (e.g., Smith, 2000), the poem's appropriate genre classification (e.g., Breizmann, 1998), its meter (e.g., Suzuki, 1995), its Christian themes (e.g., Garde, 1997), and the exact interpretation of particular words or sets of words from it (e.g., Bammersberger, 2005). Analysts have used Beowulf to throw light on history (e.g., Osborne, 2000) and on gender construction (e.g., Dockray-Miller, 1998). The Beowulf described in this article co-exists with the ones envisioned by these analysts: it does not displace them, but neither is it displaced by them.…”