Beowulf and the Harp at Sutton Hoo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11877786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bessinger Bessinger (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1958 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 148-168 |
| Publication date | 1958-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | University of Toronto Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0247 • E-ISSN: 1712-5278 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.3138/utq.27.2.148 |
| OpenAlex | W2012889687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
In a Field of old Walsingham, not many months past," wrote Sir Thomas Browne in 1658, "were digged up between fourty and fifty Urnes, deposited in a dry and sandy soile, not a yard deep, not far from one another." Hydriotaphia; Urne-Buriall is a prologue to the remarkable mediaeval scholarship of the period between 1660 and 1720 which produced figures like Dugdale, Hickes, and Wanley; and with Browne's speculations upon the urns modern archaeology in East Anglia also begins. Some sixty miles to the south-east of Walsingham, at Rendlesham, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, was the seat of the Anglo-Saxon kings of East Anglia. Downstream from the site of Rendlesham, within the grounds of a private estate called Sutton Hoo, were found in 1939 the remains of an Anglo-Saxon burial-ship in which had been placed a royal treasure. A fact which struck many people about the discovery was the parallel between the burial of this rowing-ship in England and the Danish ship-burial described in the opening verses of the Old English epic poem Beowulf. Surely one would have thought, if only a poem had described the event, that no primitive English or Danish people could have afforded to squander great wealth in the grave of a ruler? Yet there such a treasure lay in 1939
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Ephemera · EPIC · Estate · Literature · Period (music · Poetry · Prologue · Scholarship · Treasure · Classics · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.02 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 1970 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |