Beowulf as epic

dc.contributor.author	Harris, Joseph	eng
dc.date.issued	2000-03	eng
dc.description	The Kalevala is not the only epic that ends with an aeon marked by the coming of a new religion: for one could say the same of the Shahnama and of the less familiar Watunna, collected and compiled in twentieth-century Venezuela (de Civrieux 1980). Such a structure perhaps becomes available to the epic poet whenever history seems to terminate myth. But how exactly to characterize the glance over the shoulder in Beowulf? This has become one of the many controversial themes in the interpretation of the Old English epic.	eng
dc.description	Note	eng
dc.format.extent	11 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 15/1 (2000): 159-169.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/64801
dc.language	English	eng
dc.title	Beowulf as epic	eng
dc.type	Article	eng