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31 de oct. de 2007 · Richard North identifies the poet as Abbot Eanmund, who, he claims, leaves a statement of his authorship at line 2611 of Beowulf in the words æt wæs mid eldum Eanmundes laf ‘that was Eanmund's legacy among men’ (though contextually Eanmund's legacy is a sword, lost in combat to Weohstan and now brandished by Weohstan's son Wiglaf against the dragon).
9 de may. de 2018 · Rockwell Kent, Beowulf battles Grendel’s mother (1932) After Grendel’s mother attacks the men in the hall (1279), Beowulf follows her tracks to a serpent-infested pool (1399), dives in (1492), and fights her in her submerged hall (1518). When the sword given to him by Unferth fails, he battles the mother by hand.
8 de mar. de 2019 · The Scandinavian Origins of Beowulf. Beowulf is an Old English poem, and is the oldest writing in Old English extant. Beowulf's story is set in Scandinavia. Beowulf's tribe is the Geats, who reside in Götaland in modern Sweden. Beowulf rescues Hrothgar, the Danish King, whose mead hall in Heorot has been under attack by a troll named Grendel.
That the poem's origin comes from East Anglia is quite a popular notion comes with the discovery of the Sutton Hoo: the ship burial is extraordinarily similar to those mentioned in Beowulf, but, even more, the items found in the burial ship can be closely linked with the Uppsala, the royal court of Sweden at that time.
Grendel is described as "Very terrible to look upon." Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (700–1000 CE). He is one of the poem's three antagonists (along with his mother and the dragon ), all aligned in opposition against the protagonist Beowulf. He is referred to as both an eoten and a þyrs, types of beings from ...
The epic can “grow from within,” without outside models. Beowulf’s recounting to Hygelac of his adventures at Heorot has been pointed to by Pearsall as a technique that the poet learned from Virgil. There is irony here, of course, as Virgil’s model was Homer, and Homer was clearly an oral traditional poet.
Current scholarly opinion is that the poem, which may have had its origins in a pagan society, was composed by Anglo-Saxons who already had been exposed to Christianity after St. Augustine’s efforts beginning in 597. Locate examples of pagan and of Christian references in Beowulf.
