TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fjalldal,Magnus
TI  - The Long Arm of Coincidence: The Frustrated Connection Between 'Beowulf' and 'Grettis saga' 
SN  - 9780802081285
AV  - PR1585 .F53 1998eb
U1  - 829/.3 
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Comparative literature
KW  - English (Old) and Old Norse
KW  - Old Norse and English (Old)
KW  - Epic poetry, English (Old)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Mythology, Norse, in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Scholars in Old Norse and Old English studies have for years sought to find connections between Beowulf and Grettis saga, despite great differences in the composition, time period, and country of origin of the two works. Based on some striking surface similarities, the assumption of kinship, or genetically related analogues, has inspired scholars to make more and more daring conjectures regarding the actual relationship between the two works. Magnús Fjalldal has written a lively challenge to those notions, carefully demonstrating how even tangential resemblances that at one point would have been considered questionable, have become progressively assimilated into mainstream Old English and Old Norse scholarship. The author?s refutations are closely tied to the primary texts, and he makes constructive and plausible suggestions of his own as to how the apparent parallels could have arisen in two texts so separated by time, culture, and geography.Passionately and engagingly written, occasionally forceful, The Long Arm of Coincidence successfully reopens a classic argument in Old Norse and Old English studies, and will be sure to provoke strong reactions on both sides of this question
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ER  -