I examine those linguistic features of Old English and Old Norse which serve as the basic
elements for the metrical systems of those languages. I begin with a critical survey of recent …

In The Etiquette of Early Northern Verse, Roberta Frank peers into the northern poet's
workshop, eavesdropping as Old English and Old Norse verse reveal their craft secrets. This …

The present article reassesses the legend of Heremod and its relevance to Beowulf. It
argues on the basis of analogues preserved in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum that the …

The common ground between the representations of the Scylding dynasty in Saxo's Gesta
Danorum and Beowulf consists of four generations and this set has already been explored …

Behold the Front Page: Cnut and the Scyldings in Beowulf Richard North Evidence there is for
a link between King Cnut and Beowul Page 1 1 Behold the Front Page: Cnut and the Scyldings …