Robert E. Bjork
Autor(a) de A Beowulf Handbook
About the Author
Robert Bjork is Professor of English at Arizona State University and Director of the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
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- Data de nascimento
- 20th Century
- Sexo
- male
- Ocupações
- Foundation Professor of English
- Organizações
- Arizona State University
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- Obras
- 6
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 144
- Popularidade
- #143,281
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 13
- Línguas
- 1
I was a bit confused in my first reading--which sections were set in the characters' present? Which were hallucinations? Dreams or nightmares? Memories? But on second reading, they made more sense. I liked best the section where the shaman/poet/scop explains runes to the daughter, Freawaru. Also I enjoyed the incident of Wulf's travelling to the giant then elves to obtain healing for his brother and the deception Wulf and the elves played on the giant. I liked the "wisdom" shared by Freya and Freawaru on their way home, also the discussion on Boethius and on wyrd. Freya tells her daughter: "[Fate]...changes the world constantly....We are left with our inner strength and our faith in the creator and our love together."
Now I am curious to read the author's bilingual anthology. I did wonder: the ruined Roman fortress mentioned as a meeting place for the characters--was there one historically in the area these characters would have lived? North Britain? Xanten in today's Germany? Or was the fortress just a literary conceit?
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