Wolves In Beowulf And Other Old English Texts
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Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts
A fresh and sympathetic investigation of the depiction of wolves in early medieval literature, recuperating their reputation. The best-known wolves of Old English literature are the Beasts of Battle, alongside ravens and eagles as ravenous heralds of doom who haunt the battlefield in the hope of fresh meat plucked from still-warm bodies. Yet to reduce these animals to mere corpse-scavengers is to deny that they are frequently imbued with a variety of far more nuanced meanings elsewhere in the corpus. Two such meanings are inherited from ancient and medieval European lupine motifs: the superstition that the wolf could steal a person's speech, and the perceived contiguous natures of wolves and human outlaws. Tracing the history of these associations and the evidence to suggest that they were known to writers working in early medieval England, this book provides new, animal-centric readings of Wulf and Eadwacer, Abbo of Fleury and Ælfric's Passiones Eadmundi, and Beowulf, placing these texts within a lupine literary network that transcends time and place. By exploring the intricate, contradictory, and even sympathetic depictions of the wolves and wolf-like entities found within these texts, this book banishes all notions of the medieval wolf as the one-dimensional, man-eating creature that it is so often understood to be.
Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry
Genesis Myth in Beowulf and Old English Biblical Poetry explores the adaptation of antediluvian Genesis and related myth in the Old Testament poems Genesis A and Genesis B, as well as in Beowulf, a secular heroic narrative. The book explores how the Genesis poems resort to the Christian exegetical tradition and draw on secular social norms to deliver their biblically derived and related narratives in a manner relevant to their Christian Anglo-Saxon audiences. In this book it is suggested that these elements work in unison, and that the two Genesis poems function coherently in the context of the Junius 11 manuscript. Moreover, the book explores recourse to Genesis-derived myth in Beowulf, and points to important similarities between this text and the Genesis poems. It is therefore shown that while Beowulf differs from the Genesis poems in several respects, it belongs in a corpus where religious verse enjoys prominence.
The Wolf
Intro -- Half Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Poem: Trophic Cascade by Camille T Dungy -- Foreword -- Part I. Imagining the Wolf -- 1 The Wolf in the Human Mind Across Space and Time -- 2 A History of Wolves and People in France -- 3 Wolves and Other Mammals Hunted in Medieval English Forests -- 4 'Uuluesheued!' The Historical Significance of the Wolf to Early Indo-Europeans -- 5 Wolves Behind Bars -- 6 Nazi Werewolves from Outer Space: Posthuman-Wolf-Multiplicities and their (Mis)appropriations -- 7 Never Mind the Girl -- What About the Wolf? -- 8 Whose Wolf Is It Anyway? Wolves, Wilderness and Belonging -- 9 Defined 'as much by their absence as their iconography': Reimagining Wolves in Cumbria in Sarah Hall's The Wolf Border -- 10 A 'Wasteland' Infested by Wolves: The Fallacy of 'Dark Age' England -- Part II. What Makes the Wolf? -- 11 The Wolf Pack -- 12 The Wolf in the Pastoral System of Southern France -- 13 Contemporary Public Images of the Wolf -- 14 The Sweetness of Freedom: Reflections on the Occasion of the Japanese Wolf -- 15 Reimagining the Dingo: The 'Australian Wolf' or Just a Feral Dog? -- 16 Pushing the Ecological Niche: A Sea Wolf Called Takaya -- 17 'Hunger-Greedy Appetite': The Wolf in Early-Modern English Natural History -- 18 What About the Coywolf? -- 19 Is That a Wolf? Politics, Science and Red Wolf Identity -- 20 The Thylacine: A Wolf in Name Only -- Part III. Return of the Wolf -- 21 Landscapes of Coexistence: Livestock and Wolves in the Mountains of North Spain -- 22 The Wolves of Yellowstone: Saviours of the Songbird or Pieces of the Puzzle? -- 23 Wolf-Beaver Dynamics in the Greater Voyageurs Ecosystem, Minnesota.