TY  - CHAP 
AU  - Pascual Hernández, Rafael Juan
PY  - 2014
SN  - 978-1843843870
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10481/111243
AB  - This article argues that the semantic history of Old English words referring to monsters provides significant evidence for the early dating of Beowulf. Focusing on the nouns scucca and þyrs, it demonstrates that in the poem these terms retain their...
LA  - eng
KW  - Beowulf
KW  - Etymology
KW  - Old English Literature
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Monster Studies
TI  - Material Monsters and Semantic Shifts
ER  -