The Heroic Age
Issue 5
Summer/Autumn 2001
An Education in the Mead-Hall
Notes and Bibliography Notes
1. The nominative from geoguð, as listed in J.R. Clark Hall's A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, will be used throughout this essay.
2. My translations are based upon the text of Fr. Klaeber, ed. Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, 3rd edition (1950)Lexington: D.C. Heath and Company. Line numbers will be noted in the text.
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