Old English Minor Heroic Poems by Joyce Hill
English | 1994 | ISBN: 0950598933 | 92 Pages | PDF | 10.3 MB
The four heroic poems edited here give tantalising insights into the world of Old English heroic poetry: its ideals of behaviour, the role of the poet in establishing heroic reputation, and the rich array of legends which made up a powerful world of the imagination set in the creative ethnicity of a Germanic past.