Domesticating the Dayraven in 'Beowulf' 1801 (with Some Attention to Alison's 'Ston')

Author / Editor
Osborn, Marijane.

Title
Domesticating the Dayraven in 'Beowulf' 1801 (with Some Attention to Alison's 'Ston')

Published
Helen Damico and John Leyerle, eds. Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr. Studies in Medieval Culture, no. 32 (Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 1993), pp. 313-30.

Description
Argues against over-ingenious readings of the dayraven in "Beowulf" and of the stone with which Alison threatens Absalon in MilT (3708, 3712), clarifying the commonplace nature of each.

Contributor
Damico, Helen, ed.
Leyerle, John, ed.

Alternative Title
Heroic Poetry in the Anglo-Saxon Period: Studies in Honor of Jess B. Bessinger, Jr.

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale