John Grigsby
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Grigsby received a Bachelor's degree in Prehistoric European Archeology and History and a Master's degree in Celtic Studies. He made contributions to (Graham HancockGraham Hancock
Graham Hancock is a British writer and journalist. Hancock specialises in unconventional theories involving ancient civilizations, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths and astronomical/astrological data from the past...
)'s Heaven's Mirror and the television series based upon the book, Quest for the Lost Civilization. He is co-author of The Mars Mystery (with Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval). His book Warriors of the Wasteland (Watkins, 2002) examined the Medieval legends of the Grail in light of Indo-European, especially Celtic, myth. Beowulf and Grendel
Beowulf and Grendel (book)
In Beowulf & Grendel: The Truth Behind England's Oldest Legend , John Grigsby interprets Beowulf as "the recounting in poetic form of a religious conflict between two pagan cults in Denmark around AD 500" . Grigsby argues that the poem reflects the violent ending of the native fertility religion of...
(Watkins, 2005) interprets Beowulf
Beowulf
Beowulf , but modern scholars agree in naming it after the hero whose life is its subject." of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.It survives in a single...
as "the recounting in poetic form of a religious conflict between two pagan cults in Denmark around AD 500" (p. 5).