What has Baldr to do with Lamech? The lethal shot of a blind man in Old Norse myth and Jewish exegetical traditions.(Beowulf)(Critical Essay)

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Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon poem set in pre-Christian Scandinavia. No one now doubts that it was composed by a poet thoroughly versed in Christian and biblical traditions, but whether its author had the same degree of knowledge of the background to his chosen subject matter--specifically, Scandinavian paganism--has been fiercely debated. (1) And even if one is inclined to believe that the Beowulf-poet did have special knowledge of Scandinavian paganism, (2) the thorny problem remains of whether this material represented part of the poet's cultural heritage--that is, that ...

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