The role of grendel’s arm in feud, law, and the narrative strategy of Beowulf

Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 368-388

  Lockett, Leslie ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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