14 Dating Wiglaf

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Abbreviations xiv
6. 1 Getting intimate 1
7. 2 Community, joy, and the intimacy of narrative in Beowulf 31
8. 3 Beowulf and the intimacy of large parties 54
9. 4 Beowulf as Wayland’s work 73
10. 5 Beowulf and babies 97
11. 6 At home in the fens with the Grendelkin 120
12. Part III: Beowulf outside
13. 7 Elemental intimacies 147
14. 8 What the raven told the eagle 164
15. Part IV: Beowulf’s contact list
16. 9 Men into monsters 189
17. 10 Sad men in Beowulf 210
18. 11 Differing intimacies 227
19. 12 Beowulf and Andreas 257
20. 13 Beowulf, Bryher, and the Blitz 279
21. 14 Dating Wiglaf 304
22. Index 319