Voyage to the Other World: The Legacy of the Sutton Hoo

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U of Minnesota Press, 1992 - 222 стор.

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The Nature of the Sutton Hoo Coin Parcel
3
An Economic Assessment
15
Two Millennia of History
29
The Odd Couple
47
Sutton Hoo and the Recording of Beowulf
65
Sutton Hoo and AngloSaxon History
77
Rædwald the Bretwalda
105
Princely Burial in Scandinavia at the Time of the Conversion
155
The Archaeology of Danish Commercial Centers
171
The Future of Sutton
183
Contributors
201
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Сторінка xv - Redwald had long before been admitted to the sacrament of the Christian faith in Kent, but in vain ; for on his return home, he was seduced by his wife and certain perverse teachers, and turned back from the sincerity of the faith; and thus his latter state was worse than the former; so that, like the ancient Samaritans, he seemed at the same time to serve Christ and the gods whom he had served before ; and in the same temple...
Сторінка xv - Samaritans, he seemed to be serving both Christ and the gods whom he had previously served; in the same temple he had one altar for the Christian sacrifice and another small altar on which to offer victims to devils.
Сторінка 105 - Kent, after ruling his temporal kingdom gloriously for fifty-six years, entered upon the eternal joys of the heavenly kingdom. He was the third English king to rule over all the southern kingdoms,* which are divided from the north by the river Humber and the surrounding territory; but he was the first to enter the kingdom of heaven. The first king to hold the like sovereignty...
Сторінка 79 - The cattle of their native land were it would appear imported too: the store they set by their...
Сторінка 61 - The Possible Begetter of the Old English Beowulf and Widsith,' Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 25 (1922) 281-346, esp.
Сторінка 47 - Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting and significant than any romance, however passionate.
Сторінка 60 - A Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Poem of Beowulf, with a copious Glossary, Preface, and Philological Notes, by John M.
Сторінка 48 - At all events it is obvious that the rapprochement that was at once made between the Sutton Hoo burial and the substance of Beowulf was fully warranted, and rich with possibilities. Everything seems to show that these two documents complement one another admirably. Both become the clearer by the comparison."6 In other words, it was love at first sight.
Сторінка 49 - To this the translator of the English edition appends the important information, that " the animal generally represented was the boar; and it is to this custom that reference is made in Beowulf, where the poet speaks of the boar of gold, the boar hard as iron.
Сторінка 58 - England or 5eowu//Grierson's statements (p. 17) about 'two fairly distinct funerary practices which are normally found at different cultural levels,' and 'Perhaps the first hearers of Beowulf envisaged ghostly oarsmen taking over the conduct of Scyld's funeral ship once it was out of sight of land. On such a matter the Christian Beowulf is understandably silent, but the coins from Sutton Hoo suggest that this may have been the case...

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