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Beowulf: An Epic Enigma
Supporting Scholarship
A Comparative Study of Translations
Supporting Scholarship: Annotated Bibliography
• Pronouncing the Names: An Audio Guide
Illustrations: Origins and Attributions
• The Murder Mysteries: A Chart of the Clues
• Performance Samples (audio and video)
• A Teaching Guide to Beowulf: An Epic Enigma

The Old English Beowulf
• The Soundscape of Beowulf (video)
• Performance Samples in Old English
• Supporting Scholarship
• Bibliography

Beowulf’s Cultural Contexts
Beowulf as Prophetic Literature
Hygelac’s identity
A Sampling of Old English Poetry
Old English Riddles in Translation
Biblical Metaphors of Spiritual Blindness
• Anglo-Saxon Christianities
The Harrowing of Hell
Literature and History
• The Saints of Beowulf.
Early Medieval Music
Medieval Dragons
• Heroic Monstrosity
Beowulf’s Magic
Beowulf program
Nordic Saga, Myth, and Legend
• Bibliography

Beowulf’s Historical Contexts
Alfred the Great and the Dating of Beowulf
Ibn Fadlan: A Viking Funeral
Gesta Danorum: The Deeds of the Danes
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• The Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons
The Viking Terror in England
• Bibliography