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A Beowulf Bibliography A Beowulf Bibliography Aarne, Antti, and Stith Thompson. The Types of the Folktale: A Classification and Bibliography. 2nd ed. Helsinki: Helsinki Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1964. Abraham, Lenore. "The Decorum of Beowulf." Philological Quarterly 72 (1993): 267-87. Aguirre, Manuel. "The Phasal Structure of Beowulf." SELIM 1996: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature. Ed. Margarita Giménes Bon and Vickie Olsen. Zaragoza: Pórtico, 1997. 8-16. Albano, Robert A. "The Role of Women in Anglo-Saxon Culture: Hildeburh in Beowulf and a Curious Counterpart in the Volsunga Saga." English Language Notes 32.1 (1994): 1-10. Albrecht, Roberta Adams. "Beowulf." Explicator 40.4 (1982): 4-6. Alexander, Michael, trans. Beowulf. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973. ---. Old English Literature. London: Macmillan, 1983. ---, ed. Beowulf. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995. Alfano, Christine. 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Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Ed. Michael Lapidge and Helmut Gneuss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. 409-32. Battaglia, Frank. "The Germanic Earth Goddess in Beowulf." Mankind Quarterly 32 (1991): 415-46. Baum, Paull F. "The Beowulf Poet." Philological Quarterly 39 (1960): 389-99. Bauschatz, Paul C. "Old English Conjunctions: Some Semantic Considerations." In Geardagum 2 (1977): 18-30. ---. The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. Bähr, Dieter. "Altenglisch isig (Beowulf, Zeile 33)." Zeitschrift Für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 19 (1971): 409-12. Bäuml, Franz H., and Edda Spielmann. "From Illiteracy to Literacy: Prolegomena to a Study of the Nibelungenlied." Forum for Modern Language Studies 10 (1974): 248-59. Beach, Sarah. "Loss and Recompense: Responsibilities in Beowulf." Mythlore 18.2 (1992): 55-65. 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