NOTES

ROYAL POWER AND ROYAL SYMBOLS IN BEOWULF 

* Cet article a été initialement publié dans The Age of Sutton Hoo : The Seventh Century in North-Western Europey, edited by Martin O. H. Carver, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1992, p. 167-174.

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(7) Ibidem, p. 415, 418-419.

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(9) Elene 76, 123-124