Chambers entertains the possibility that there is only one Guthlaf in the poem, that father and son are fighting on opposite sides, and that ‘we have here a tragic incident parallel to the story of Hildebrand and Hadubrand’.² Yet Chambers refrains from championing this solution, as he lends equal weight to a second possibility, namely, that ‘the occurrence of Guthlaf as Garulf’s father is simply a scribal error’.³ A third solution, propounded by Frederick Klaeber, is that the Finnsburg fragment might refer to two different men named Guthlaf, much as The Battle of Maldon refers to two men named Godric and two men named Wulfmær.⁴ After weighing the relative merits of these three solutions, J. Various solutions to the problem of the two Guthlafs have been registered in the critical literature. 16 b).¹ Guthlaf is then given as the name of the father of Garulf, an instigator of the attack on Hnæf’s hall and the first casualty of the skirmish, when he is described as Gūðlāfes sunu (l. Guthlaf appears first as the name of one of the men fighting under the leadership of Hnæf, who defends the besieged hall alongside Sigeferth, Eaha, Ordlaf, and Hengest (l. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.A longstanding crux in the criticism on the Finnsburg fragment concerns the two occurrences of the name Guthlaf in the poem’s transmitted text. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller.
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