Treasure and the Life Course in Genesis A and Beowulf

Amy Faulkner

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Page Range:: 229–250

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004501867_011

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Abstract

In Old English heroic poetry, significant moments of transition in the life course are accompanied by the transmission of wealth. In the genealogical sections of Genesis A, for example, the cycles of death and succession are punctuated with the inheritance and distribution of wealth, just as in Beowulf succession tends to be marked by a valuable gift. Though the body of the parent perishes, their legacy continues in the form of their heir, and the treasure which that heir controls. This paper firstly identifies a model for death and succession, used repeatedly in Genesis A, which combines the central elements of this heroic ideal: the death of the leader, their wealth, their heir and what the heir does with this wealth. Secondly, this paper argues that the failure of this model at the end of Beowulf reflects the poet’s preoccupation with uncertain dynastic succession at the end of the poem.

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Early Medieval English Life Courses

Cultural-Historical Perspectives

丛编： Explorations in Medieval Culture, 卷： 20

Cover Early Medieval English Life Courses

ISBN:: 9789004501867

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 17 Nov 2021

Subjects
- History
  - Medieval History
  - History of Medicine
- Literature and Cultural Studies

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Part 1 Defining and Dividing the Life Course

Part 2 The Life Course and the Human Body

Part 3 Intergenerational Dynamics

Part 4 Life beyond the Human

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