Beowulf and Lejre

by John D. Niles

On the basis of legendary analogues, specialists in the Old English poem Beowulf have long inferred that the action of the main part of that poem is situated at the village of Gammel Lejre on the island of Zealand, Denmark. Archaeological excavations undertaken from 1986 to 1988 under the direction of Tom Christensen of Roskilde Museum yielded spectacular confirmation of that inference by uncovering the remains of two great halls at Lejre dating from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503527345
• ISBN13: 9782503527345
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 495 Pages