Who cursed whom, and when? The cursing of the hoard and Beowulf's fate.

From: Medium Aevum | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

For over forty years, critics have keenly and at times hotly debated Beowulf's fate. Eric Stanley's view that the poet represents him as damned by the working of the curse laid on the dragon's hoard has been ably and widely supported, perhaps most effectively by A.J. Bliss's arguments from syntax and lexicography. (1) But while endorsing their analysis of the syntax, Bruce Mitchell has lodged repeated protests on behalf of the many readers who cannot accept an interpretation of the ending that appears to run so completely counter to the spirit of the rest of the poem. (2) Fred ...

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