Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts

by Elizabeth Marshall

The best-known wolves of Old English literature are the Beasts of Battle, alongside ravens and eagles as ravenous heralds of doom who haunt the battlefield in the hope of fresh meat plucked from still-warm bodies. Yet to reduce these animals to mere corpse-scavengers is to deny that they are frequently imbued with a variety of far more nuanced meanings elsewhere in the corpus.
Two such meanings are inherited from ancient and medieval European lupine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843846403
• ISBN13: 9781843846406
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"