Chris Vinsonhaler: Beowulf, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Challenging the longstanding view of Beowulf as a praise poem for heroes, this groundbreaking translation reveals a riddling design in which the mirroring resemblance between the monsters and the Scandinavian heroes serves as a scathing indictment of heroic ideologies. Even more provocatively, it reveals a subtle web of clues that indicts the heroes in crimes against kinsmen. King Hrothgar's rise to power is shadowed by hints of his brother's proxy murder, while Beowulf's heroic allure proves the false front of a criminal mastermind who slays his king, orchestrates the murder of his prince, and misleads his countrymen to their deaths, even as he continues to mislead the poem's readers to this day.

Forthcoming in May 2026, with a preface by Heather O'Donoghue, Professor Emerita, Norse-Icelandic Literature, Oxford University.