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Beowulf, an Early Anglo-Saxon Epic

Part I. Ice, Candle and Cross. Images of the Giant Sword in Beowulf

• Prior Views on the Melting of the Giant Sword
• Old Norse Ice-Swords

• Vargeisa’s Candle-Sword
• Grýla’s Icicle-Candle
• The Giant Sword as Solar Candle
• Sörli and Sigrljómi ‘Victory-Light’
• The Giant Sword as Paschal Candle

• The Cross in the Lake
• Three Old English Heavenly Candle-Crosses
• Sword-Hilts, Sword-Blades and Crosses
• Beowulf and Christ as Bearers of the Sword-Cross
• The Battle-Standard and the Cross
• Wiglaf as Sword-Bearer and Cross-Bearer

Part II. Sun-Swords and Moon-Monsters. On the Theft and Recovery of Sunlight in Beowulf and Other Early Northern Texts

• Giant-Forged and Giant-Stolen?
• The Giant Sword and the Theft of Mjǫllnir
• The Cup-Thief, Grendel’s Glove and Grendel’s ‘Un-Sword’: Aspects of Recurrent Thievery in Beowulf
• The Basis for Detecting Germanic Myth in Beowulf

• The Ingwine ‘Ing-Friends’ and Ing, Son of Man
• Ing and Ingi-/Yngvi-Freyr
• Freyr, the Friendly God
• Worship of Ing in England?
• Ing in the Old English Rune Poem
• The Inge-Peoples and the Sun-God of Psalm 112
• Hroðgar and Danish Worship of an Unnamed Devil
• Hroðgar, Healfdene’s ‘Firebrand’ and the Incgelaf
• Ingunar-Freyr and Freyr’s Sword
• Hroðgar as Frea
• Wealhþeo’s Brosinga Mene and Freyja’s Brísingamen
• Freawaru
• The Danes and the ‘Life-Lord’

• Fǫr Skírnis and Beowulf’s Mere-Episode
• Lokasenna, Gylfaginning and the Gifted Sword
• Gymir and Gerðr as Sea-Giants
• Hjálmþér, Ýma and Margerðr
• The Burning Candle and the Barley Isle

• Svipdagr’s Quest for Menglǫð
• Loki’s Taking of the Twig
• More About Lævateinn and Mistilteinn
• Saxo’s Hotherus, Balderus and the Sword of Mimingus
• Lævateinn in the Lúðr
• The Maelstrom-Giantess in Sagas of Hjálmþér, Grettir and Samson
• Grendel’s Mother as Maelstrom-Giantess

• Solar Aspects of Freyr in the Eddas
• Skírnir as Purifier
• Beowulf and the Giant Sword as Purifiers
• Freyr as Thawer

• Freyr, Beli and the Hart’s Horn
• Heorot, the Hart-Hall
• The ‘Hunted Hart’ Passage in Beowulf
• The Solar Stag in Early Europe
• The Hunt for the Sun
• The ‘Battle-Thief/Wolf of the Sky-Shield’
• Skǫll and Hati
• The Old One, the Pitchforker and Mánagarmr
• Wolf-Snake versus Sun-Stag: Norse Myth on the Gosforth Cross
• Hunted Stags on Other Anglo-Saxon Crosses
• The Ovingham Stone
• One Man (in the Moon) and His Dog

• The Lunar Thief and Grendel
• The Solar Repossessor and Beowulf

The Loss and Recovery of the Solar Draught-Beast in Wið Dweorh

• An Old English Dwarf-Horse-Deer?
• A Headache (?)-Causing Dwarf from Denmark
• Another Headache-Causing Dwarf and a Radiant Sword
• The Sun as Healer, Especially in Old English Remedies
• The Dwarf and Grendel as ‘In-Going’ Fever-Demons

• The Buried Antler and Christian Legends, Especially of the Cross
• The Solar Antler, the Dwarf-Horse-Stag (?) and a Solar Sword
• Svafrlami and Dvalinn
• Dvalinn and the Deaths of Alvíss and Hrímgerðr
• Runes of Resurrection
• Sólarljóð and Beowulf

• Trees of Sun and Moon, and a Monster Called Quasi Caput Luna
• Grendel the Wan
• Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tale 175: Der Mond ‘The Moon’
• The Dead Moon, a Blickling Homily and Beowulf
• Nið ‘Waning/Dark Moon’ (?) in Beowulf
• Grendel and Glámr, the Monster with Moonlit Eyes
• Grendel’s Mother and Norse Moon-Giantesses
• Mána, Moon-Giantess and Thief
• Mána and Brana
• Skjaldvör, the ‘Dark-Moon Chest’ and More about the Nið-Dragon
• Hyndla at the ‘Darkness of Darknesses’
• Þórgunna, Mána-Ljótur and the Half-Moon
• The Old One and the Pitchforker, Again
• Ýma and the Boatforker
• Two More Male Forkers and a Sword of Lunar Waning King Dagr and the Hayforker
• Kolr the Gibbous, His Fork-Wielding Son and the Sword Angrvaðill
• Anger, Death and the Dismembered Moon
• The Lunar Head and the Solar Head

• Three Golden Eggs, a Fallen Spark and a Pike
• Tyrfingr and the Pike
• Mistilteinn and the Pike
• Hrómundr Gripsson, Þráinn and Mistilteinn
• Grendel’s Mother as Pike

Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon Song of Ice and Fire

• In a sermon for the Easter vigil, Gaudentius of Brescia (died 410) wrote: