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STu DIES IN PH ILOLOGY v olume 105 Summer 20 0 8 Number 3 What Kind of a Seat is Hrothgars’ gifstol? by Murray McGillivray N enormous amount of attentionhas been paid to the “gifstol- crux” in lines 168– 69 of Beowulf, but—strangelyto my mind— Athere has been proportionatelylit tlecuriosit y about the likely meaning of the word gifstolitself . For at least the lastsev enty years the discussion of line 168 (“no he þone gifstolgret an moste”) has revolved closely around only three basic questions, summarized by C. L. Wrenn in 1953: “(1) does hē refer to Grendel or to Hrōþgār? (2) is the throne God’s or Hrōþgār’s? (3) does grētanmean ‘approach’ or ‘attack’. . . ?” Recen tly, considerationof the meaning of moste with the negative has been added. The meanin g of the word gifstolhas not been one of the See R. E. Kaske, “The Gifstol Crux in Beowulf,” Leeds Studies in English , n.s. 16 (1985): 142–57, for a good summary of the controversies and a good introduction to the biblio- graphical resources for this crux. See Angus Cameron, AllisonKin gsmill,and Ashley CrandellAmos , Old English Word Studies:
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jul 17, 2008
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