TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pettit,Edward
TI  - The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth In 'Beowulf'
SN  - 9781783748297
AV  - PR1585  .P488 2020 
U1  - 829.3 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Open Book Publishers
KW  - Beowulf
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Signs and Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Beowulf, an Early Anglo-Saxon Epic -- Part I. Ice, Candle and Cross: Images of the Giant Sword in Beowulf -- 2. The Giant Sword and the Ice -- Prior Views on the Melting of the Giant Sword -- Old Norse Ice-Swords -- 3. The Giant Sword and the Candle -- Vargeisa's Candle-Sword -- Gr�yla's Icicle-Candle -- The Giant Sword as Solar Candle -- S�orli and Sigrlj�omi 'Victory-Light' -- The Giant Sword as Paschal Candle -- 4. The Giant Sword and the Cross -- The Cross in the Lake -- Three Old English Heavenly Candle-Crosses -- Sword-Hilts, Sword-Blades and Crosses -- Beowulf and Christ as Bearers of the Sword-Cross -- The Battle-Standard and the Cross -- Wiglaf as Sword-Bearer and Cross-Bearer -- Part II. Sun-Swords and Moon-Monsters: On the Theft and Recovery of Sunlight in Beowulf and Other Early Northern Texts -- 5. Whose Sword Is it, Anyway? -- Giant-Forged and Giant-Stolen? -- The Giant Sword and the Theft of Mjǫllnir -- The Cup-Thief, Grendel's Glove and Grendel's 'Un-Sword': Aspects of Recurrent Thievery in Beowulf -- The Basis for Detecting Germanic Myth in Beowulf -- 6. Ing, Ingvi-Freyr and Hro�gar -- The Ingwine 'Ing-Friends' and Ing, Son of Man -- Ing and Ingi-/Yngvi-Freyr -- Freyr, the Friendly God -- Worship of Ing in England? -- Ing in the Old English Rune Poem -- The Inge-Peoples and the Sun-God of Psalm 112 -- Hro�gar and Danish Worship of an Unnamed Devil -- Hro�gar, Healfdene's 'Firebrand' and the Incgelaf -- Ingunar-Freyr and Freyr's Sword -- Hro�gar as Frea -- Wealh�eo's Brosinga Mene and Freyja's Br�isingamen -- Freawaru -- The Danes and the 'Life-Lord' -- 7. Freyr, Sk�irnir and Ger�r -- Fǫr Sk�irnis and Beowulf's Mere-Episode -- Lokasenna, Gylfaginning and the Gifted Sword -- Gymir and Ger�r as Sea-Giants -- Hj�alm��er, �Yma and Marger�r; The Burning Candle and the Barley Isle -- 8. L�vateinn and the Maelstrom-Giantess -- Svipdagr's Quest for Menglǫ� -- Loki's Taking of the Twig -- More About L�vateinn and Mistilteinn -- Saxo's Hotherus, Balderus and the Sword of Mimingus -- L�vateinn in the L�u�r -- The Maelstrom-Giantess in Sagas of Hj�alm��er, Grettir and Samson -- Grendel's Mother as Maelstrom-Giantess -- 9. Freyr's Solar Power and the Purifying Sword -- Solar Aspects of Freyr in the Eddas -- Sk�irnir as Purifier -- Beowulf and the Giant Sword as Purifiers -- Freyr as Thawer -- 10. Freyr, Heorot and the Hunt for the Solar Stag -- Freyr, Beli and the Hart's Horn -- Heorot, the Hart-Hall -- The 'Hunted Hart' Passage in Beowulf -- The Solar Stag in Early Europe -- The Hunt for the Sun -- The 'Battle-Thief/Wolf of the Sky-Shield' -- Skǫll and Hati -- The Old One, the Pitchforker and M�anagarmr -- Wolf-Snake versus Sun-Stag: Norse Myth on the Gosforth Cross -- Hunted Stags on Other Anglo-Saxon Crosses -- The Ovingham Stone -- One Man (in the Moon) and His Dog -- 11. A Tale of Two Creatures: The Theft and Recovery of Sunlight in Riddle 29 -- The Lunar Thief and Grendel -- The Solar Repossessor and Beowulf -- 12. Another Tale of Two Creatures: The Loss and Recovery of the Solar Draught-Beast in Wi� Dweorh -- An Old English Dwarf-Horse-Deer? -- A Headache(?)-Causing Dwarf from Denmark -- Another Headache-Causing Dwarf and a Radiant Sword -- The Sun as Healer, Especially in Old English Remedies -- The Dwarf and Grendel as 'In-Going' Fever-Demons -- 13. The Solar Antler in S�olarlj�o� -- The Buried Antler and Christian Legends, Especially of the Cross -- The Solar Antler, the Dwarf-Horse-Stag(?) and a Solar Sword -- Svafrlami and Dvalinn -- Dvalinn and the Deaths of Alv�iss and Hr�imger�r -- Runes of Resurrection -- S�olarlj�o� and Beowulf -- 14. Grendel, His Mother and Other Moon‑Monsters; Trees of Sun and Moon, and a Monster Called Quasi Caput Luna -- Grendel the Wan -- Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tale 175: Der Mond 'The Moon' -- The Dead Moon, a Blickling Homily and Beowulf -- Ni� 'Waning/Dark Moon'(?) in Beowulf -- Grendel and Gl�amr, the Monster with Moonlit Eyes -- Grendel's Mother and Norse Moon-Giantesses -- M�ana, Moon-Giantess and Thief -- M�ana and Brana -- Skjaldv�or, the 'Dark-Moon Chest' and More about the Ni�‑Dragon -- Hyndla at the 'Darkness of Darknesses' -- ��orgunna, M�ana-Lj�otur and the Half-Moon -- The Old One and the Pitchforker, Again -- �Yma and the Boatforker -- Two More Male Forkers and a Sword of Lunar Waning -- King Dagr and the Hayforker -- Kolr the Gibbous, His Fork-Wielding Son and the Sword Angrva�ill -- Anger, Death and the Dismembered Moon -- The Lunar Head and the Solar Head -- 15. The Sun in the Pike -- Three Golden Eggs, a Fallen Spark and a Pike -- Tyrfingr and the Pike -- Mistilteinn and the Pike -- Hr�omundr Gripsson, �r�ainn and Mistilteinn -- Grendel's Mother as Pike -- 16. Conclusion: Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon Song of Ice and Fire -- Supplementary Note -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- Bibliography -- Unattributed Web Pages
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