The Medieval Dragon: The Nature of the Beast in Germanic LiteratureHisarlik Press, 1998 - 151 من الصفحات The dragons portrayed in the four works examined here, BEOWULF, THE SAGA OF THE VOLSUNGS, DAS NIBELUNGENLIED and THIDREKS SAGA each represent an unaticipated challenge to audience expectations concerning dragons and dragon slayers. The assumption that we all know what a dragon is, has been so deeply rooted in our cultural imagination that scholars speak casually of dragons as if the word required no interpretation. In this book the author deploys the techniques and theories of modern literary criticism texts to illuminate the function and meaning of dragons in the medieval Germanic world. |
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Beowulf and the Beowulf Dragon | 23 |
Fáfnir | 49 |
Sîfrit | 71 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Æsir audience Aventiure Bakhtin battle behavior Beowulf dragon Beowulf poet Brynhildr Burgundians chap Christian chronotope context courtly death Dialogic Imagination discourse discussion draconitas dragon fight dragon myth dragon slayer dragon slaying dragonish draugr Edda episode fact Fáfnir Fáfnismál gæst genre Germanic Grendel Grendel's mother guest Gunther Hagen Haymes Heorot heroic historical hoard horizon of expectations host Hroðgar human Icelandic Indo-European dragon slaying Indo-European myth initiation interpretation intertexts Isenstein J.R.R. Tolkien Jauss killing King Kriemhilt language legend liminal literary medieval metaphor mimetic desire Mímir monologic monster monstrous double murder mythic narrative Nibelung Nibelungenland Nibelungenlied Óðinn Old English Old Norse otherworld pagan poem poem's poet's Prünhilt Ragnars saga loðbrókar reciprocal violence reference Reginn role romance saga af Bern saga's Scyld serpent Siegfried Sîfrit Sigmundr Sigurðr sveinn Sinfjotli story sublation supernatural sword symbolic tion tradition trans transformation treasure University Press Volsunga saga warriors word þat Þiðreks saga