Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript by Asa Simon Mittman, Susan M. Kim

Inconceivable Beasts: The Wonders of the East in the Beowulf Manuscript

Asa Simon Mittman, Susan M. Kim

273 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction
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Bound with Beowulf, the Old English Wonders of the East, a catalogue of marvelous beings, describes the very creatures it depicts as ungefrægelicu (unheard of, inconceivable). Insistently, these representations, both visual and textual, provoke qu...

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