Resumen de Christus und andere Helden: Bemerkungen zu einigen altenglischen Gedichten
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.
