In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf , Widsith , and the Waltharius as participating in an alternative mode of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms alongside chronicles, Latinate ecclesiastical histories, and Biblical epics.
In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf , Widsith , and the Waltharius as participating in an alternative mode of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms alongside chronicles, Latinate ecclesiastical histories, and Biblical epics.
