The Heroic Age
The Heroic Age, published by Cambridge University Press in 1912, is H. Munro Chadwick's comparative study of the early heroic poetry of the Germanic peoples and of Greece. Chadwick, a Cambridge scholar of Anglo-Saxon, begins with poems such as Beowulf and the stories of the migration period, asking where and when their heroes lived, how the poems came into being, and how far they contain myth, the supernatural or plain fiction. He then applies the same questions to the Homeric poems, and concludes that the two traditions reflect similar societies at similar stages of development, with notes on Celtic and Slavonic heroic poetry. The book became a starting point for later comparative work on oral epic. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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Yes. The Heroic Age by H. Munro Chadwick is a public-domain work. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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About 12 h 58 min of reading, at an average reading pace. Your place is saved automatically when you are signed in, so you can read in several sittings and on several devices.
What kind of book is The Heroic Age?
The Heroic Age by H. Munro Chadwick is filed under "Poetry" in the Vinteuil library.
