BEOWULF AND THE PERMUTATIONS OF A GERMANIC LEGEND: THE INCARNATIONS OF INGELD ACROSS GERMANIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE

• Main Author: Currie, Edward
• Other Authors: Hill, Thomas Dana, Zacher, Samantha, Galloway, Andrew Scott, Hicks, Andrew
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: English literature; Medieval Literature; Beowulf; Heroism; Ingeld; Old Norse; Comparative Literature; Old English; medieval; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1813/64900; http://dissertations.umi.com/cornellgrad:11158; https://doi.org/10.7298/rezz-ws87

This dissertation examines the varying uses and contexts of the legend of Ingeld, a key figure across a range of Germanic literature and culture whose manipulation by the poet of Beowulf remains one of the most cryptic yet crucial allusions in that poem. His appearance in Old English verse is perhap...