Christus und andere Helden: Bemerkungen zu einigen altenglischen Gedichten

• Autores: Ernst Hellgardt
• Localización: Narration and hero: recounting the deeds of heroes in literature and art of the early medieval period / Víctor Millet (ed. lit.), Heike Sahm (ed. lit.), 2014, ISBN 9783110336139, págs. 339-360
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The presentation of Christ as hero and the concept of fealty in Old Anglo Saxon and Old Saxon texts have been explained with the needs of missionary accom-modation. The article reconsiders this explanation: First of all, the imagination of a more active, heroic Christ was already taken up in exegesis from late antiquity. Se-condly, the epic-heroic terminology is dependent on the genre. In the Old English Prose Guthlac, the terminology of fealty is absent; in Guthlac B the hero’s death is described in epic-heroic style.