“Revisiting the Legendary History of Deor” now in Medium Ævum

From the essay: “The Deor we know from scholarship is a poem comprising episodes, isolated ‘examples’ illustrating the ‘moral … that when adversity comes we are to endure it, taking what small comfort we can from the thought that it will eventually pass’. This article, however, [argues] that a relative wealth of Germanic analogues allows us to see the legendary episodes not as various stories partly obscured by time, but as points in a well-known, sequential narrative history.”

You can read the article in Medium Ævum here.