In his latest adventure, the mighty Anglo-Saxon hero falls in love with a beautiful dark-eyed Hungarian princess, then must rescue her from The Golden Hoard. Not exactly, but the story is about
a marriage of sorts, between a text and a place. Tradition places the main action of the Old English poem at Lejre, Zealand (Denmark), and excavations there 1986-88 and 2004-05 have revealed a
succession of great halls dated from the middle sixth to the late tenth centuries, and very similar to the one described in eight-century poem. Archaeologists, historians, and literary scholars
consider the implications. The publisher is the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Annotation 穢2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
