Oral-Formulaic Theory: Annotated Bibliography

Helen Damico. Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Studies the treatment of Queen Wealhtheow in the Old English heroic epic Beowulf, emphasizing her archetypal qua lities and the thematic composition of the Wealhtheow passages of the epic, and paying particular attention to details of traditional diction in her description. Discusses numerous parallels in both pagan and Christian Anglo-Saxon poems.
Area: OE