Marriage, Property and Female Power in Germanic Culture and Germanic Heroic Poetry

dc.rights.license	CC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisor	Auer, A
dc.contributor.author	Verheul, K.
dc.date.accessioned	2013-07-25T17:01:40Z
dc.date.available	2013-07-25
dc.date.available	2013-07-25T17:01:40Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.identifier.uri	https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/13387
dc.description.abstract	This study examines the role of women in Germanic heroic (elegiac) poetry in relation to marriage, property and female power. It uses the stories of nine women from Beowulf, The Wife’s Lament, the Poetic Edda and the Nibelungenlied as examples and argues that they develop along similar lines. This study also looks to the role of women in Proto-Indo-European, Anglo-Saxon, Norse-Icelandic and German society to better understand the representation of women in Germanic heroic (elegiac) poetry.
dc.description.sponsorship	Utrecht University
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dc.language.iso	en
dc.title	Marriage, Property and Female Power in Germanic Culture and Germanic Heroic Poetry
dc.type.content	Master Thesis
dc.rights.accessrights	Open Access
dc.subject.keywords	women, Germanic, poetry, heroic poetry, Anglo-Saxon, Norse-Icelandic, German, Proto-Indo-European, marriage, property, power, Beowulf, Wife's Lament, Poetic Edda, Nibelungenlied
dc.subject.courseuu	Middeleeuwen en Renaissance Studies