Siward the dragon-slayer: mythmaking in Anglo-Scandinavian England
<p>This article examines a legendary narrative about the life of the Danish-born Siward, Earl of Northumbria (d. 1055), which is preserved in a thirteenth-century manuscript from Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire. This narrative, several elements of which have close parallels in Old Norse literat...
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2013
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