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• Beowalf's great hall: John D. Niles reports on the search for the real location of the Heorot, the hall where Beowulf feasted before fighting the monster Grendel. 

  READERS OF Beowulf will be familiar with the moment, early in the poem, when Hrothgar, the reigning king of Denmark in the Scylding line of...

  History Today, 10/01/06 by Niles, John D. · More from publication

• Bede's Caedmon, "The Man Who Had No Story" 

  Abstract Abstract Although various analogues have been cited to Bede's account of the poet Caedmon, none are very close. The plot of a tale...

  Folklore, 08/01/06 by John D. Niles · More from publication

• Myth of the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet, The 

  Ten years ago Roberta Frank published an article, based on her Toller Lecture for 1992, titled "The Search for the Anglo-Saxon Oral Poet" (Frank...

  Western Folklore, 01/01/03 by Niles, John D · More from publication

• Widsith and the Anthropology of the Past 

  Thanks in part to the opacity with which it names, without comment, tribe after tribe and ruler after ruler of the ancient world, the poem that we...

  Philological Quarterly, 01/01/99 by John D. Niles · More from publication