Table of Contents

Prefaces
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Origins of the Poem
Chapter 3. Some Unproven Premises
Chapter 4. Dating of the Poem
Chapter 5. Archaeological Delimination
Chapter 6. Results of Primary Analysis, Step 1
Chapter 7. The Name Geatas
Chapter 8. Other Links to Eastern Sweden
Chapter 9. Elements of Non-Christian Thinking
Chapter 10. Poetry in Scandinavia
Chapter 11. The Oral Structure of the Poem
Chapter 12. Results of Primary Analysis, Step 2
Chapter 13. Gotland
Chapter 14. Heorot
Chapter 15. Swedes and Gutes
Chapter 16. The Horsemen around Beowulf’s Grave
Chapter 17. Some Linguistic Details
Chapter 18. From Scandinavia to England
Chapter 19. Transmission and Writing Down in England
Chapter 20. Allegorical Representation
Chapter 21. Beowulf and Guta saga
Chapter 22. Chronology
Chapter 23. Retrospective Summary
Bibliography

About the Author

Bo Gräslund is professor emeritus in archaeology at Uppsala University.