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Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version By J.R.R. Tolkien
Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version By J.R.R. Tolkien
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Dumézil’s theory allows one to make sense of the apparently paradoxical account
of Scyld Scefing in Beowulf, whereby, as noted by Tolkien, he “came out of the
Unknown beyond the Great Sea, and returned into It: a miraculous intrusion into
history, which nonetheless left real historical effects: a new Denmark” (2014: 151).
Although there is no evidence of Tolkien’s knowledge of Dumézil, his comments
and renderings of the story reveal an understanding of the myth that comes very
close to the trifunctional paradigm. Tolkien certainly grasped the deeper significance
of Scyld’s story and reinforced it by supplying an actual sheaf of grain in his own
versions, to connect the beginning of history and culture explicitly with corn and
the associated values of the third function