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Beowulf (c. 700 C.E.) is a heroic epic poem, written in Old English, and easily the most important work of literature written in that language.At over 3,000 lines, the poem makes up 10 percent of the entire corpus of extant Old English literature. Beowulf is also one of the earliest surviving documents written in any vernacular language—one of the most valuable glimpses into the culture and ...
11 de oct. de 2012 · Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and drawin...
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 ...
I am aware of its incompatibility with certain alternative accounts of the origins of Beowulf that have been given in the critical literature, sometimes on linguistic or paleographical grounds. 52 I am also aware that a huge number of questions having to do with the apparent making of Beowulf during the period ca. 890–990 — and by the ...
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.
8 de feb. de 2007 · This book suggests that the Old English poem Beowulf was composed between the reigns of Kings Beornwulf (823-6) and Wiglaf (827-9 and 830-39) of Mercia, in the winter of 826-7, in the monastery of Breedon on the Hill in NW Leicestershire, by Abbot Eanmund (ruled 814x816-c.848). The premise seems clear enough in the Beowulf–Wiglaf sequence in ...
Beowulf is an epic poem which was written sometime between 550 and 1000 CE. It is a good example of alliterative verse, which is the repetition of sounds from line to line. The story centers on ...
