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Lädt ... Sutton Hoo: Burial Ground of Kings? (1998)von Martin Carver
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Martin Carver draws on the full range of research undertaken at the site, which was still being excavated in 1993, to present a story of the archaeological discovery. Beginning with the excavations, he goes on to tell the story of the site itself. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Here he states “A burial is composed of selected objects and it is likely that the objects, taken individually and together, were also full of allusions to rank, power, ancestry, ideology and allegiance to kin at home and overseas. I therefore regard a ship burial as just as much a poem as Beowulf is, just as difficult to interpret but just as capable of giving us insights into the Anglo-Saxon mind. Burials are poems written with material culture; so that the choice of burial rite and choice of what is put into the grave are choices to what was known or feared or loved by the mourners.”
“Neither Sutton Hoo or Beowulf represents a straight account of reality. Both contain allusions to the real world, but we do not know for certain which the were.”
*so the Beowulf course i was in has taken me from Tacitus writing in the 2nd A.D. to Sutton Hoo with Basil’s 1939 dig** and various interpretations of Beowulf (Heaney, Hedley, Tolkien) including modern novels and movies (Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead and The 13th Warrior and The Mere Wife). Now onto Gardner’s Grendel and Ibn Fadlan’s travels.
**Serendipitously, last year before the Beowulf course, I’d watched the movie The Dig with Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan as Basil Brown and Edith Pretty which, based on this reading, fairly accurately captures the events surrounding that dig (well, except the whole love triangle (?) tangent involving Lily James) ( )