The departure of the hero in a ship: The intertextuality of Beowulf, Cynewulf and Andreas
This article identifies a new Old English poetic motif, ‘The Departure of the Hero in a Ship’, and discusses the implications of its presence in Beowulf, the signed poems of Cynewulf and Andreas, a group of texts already linked by shared lexis, imagery and themes. It argues that the Beowulf-poet use...
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Oviedo University Press
2019
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