I have just completed the reading of Beowulf‚ which was translated by Burton Raffel. <br> <br>1) Beowulf is an extremely exciting and fascinating story about a character who lived in medieval Europe. The shocking thing for me about this work was to find out that it is the earliest poem in a modern European language. Beowulf is to the English what Homer and the Odyssey were to the Greeks. Although this is the earliest poem‚ it is still fun and exciting to read. I didn’t believe that a poem which has
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similar or has something to do with the Christian religion. In many other parts of the book‚ there are references to God or Christianity. "To build a hall that would hold his mighty band and reach higher toward Heaven than anything that had ever been known to the sons of men." (Ll.68-70) In this quotation there is a reference made about how Herot is the closest thing to heaven. King Hrothgar is seen as a noble and kind King‚ he is almost seen as a holy figure that is why he builds a castle that
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Lehmann describes the Herot he just says descriptions like “mighty hall‚” and “stronghold loomed‚ gleaming golden.” However Gordon goes on the mention the complete different aspects of the hall‚ by stating‚ “The wine building‚ the golden-hall of warriors‚ gleaming with plates of gold” (Gorgon 1926). “Golden and gold” describes how the Herot is a very wealthy place and filled with strong warriors. This also gives us a sense of what the building looks like and who is inside the Herot within just one sentence
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Tho 10. What is a shirt of armor called? Mail 11. What were Grendel’s claws called? Talons 12. What’s a kenning? Compound words that describe. 13. Who is Hrothgar’s father? Heledan 14. What is mead? Beer‚ Ale. 15. Who is the hero? Beowulf 16. What is the only thing that could destroy Herot? If it was burned down 17. Who were the geats? The people from Sweden 18. What was Grendel’s house called? The Monster’s Lair Short Answer Question (Whole sentence) 1. “Wondering what warriors
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a faraway land in turmoil due to a terrible creature. This is the case for Beowulf in Beowulf a New Telling by Robert Nye‚ Hrothgar a king in the land of danes builds a great hall called hall Herot but soon after a monster known as Grendal angered by the light and happiness of the hall begins to attack the people in the hall at night. News of the attacks spread to the land of Geads where a young man named Beowulf decides to go to the land of Danes and defeat Grendal. A hero is someone who is willing
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from battle covered in his enemies blood. Beowulf has come to King Hrothgar to fight an ogre. A monster that has brought misery and death to the Danes for many years. This ogre‚ Grendel‚ killed thirty of Hrothgar’s men and caused the great mead hall of Herot to be closed. Beowulf tells King Hrothgar “the monster’s scorn of men Is so great that he needs no weapons and fears none. Nor will I” (lines 262-264) Therefore Beowulf intends to fight the Grendel without his armor or his sword. Beowulf
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In ancient times‚ around 700 A.D. in fact‚ an epic poem is birthed‚ Beowulf is the name. As the birth of this poem is practically unknown in a sense since the author is unknown and the exact date it was written‚ it has been used as a source of entertainment in the ancient years. Even though the reasons of this poem being used as entrainment is unknown‚ the poem has been presented in such dramatic ways and settings as the content itself makes people intrigued by it. The action‚ the gore‚ this is the
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destiny influences the thoughts and actions of the characters. Provide several other examples from Beowulf to support your position.I think Grendel would go back to Herot and want revenge. He would want to kill Beowulf for trying to kill him. Grendel would not like the fact the someone tried to stop him because he had been going to the hall for 12 years and no one could stop him.He would want to kill more Danes. Grendel is a monster and he expects people to be afraid of him and he wouldnt like it that
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Important Places and People Danes: Geats: Hrothgar: Herot: Grendel: Beowulf: Higlac: Wiglaf: The Wrath of Grendel 1. What angered Grendel? 2. What do the scops (minstrels) in Herot sing about? 3. Who were Grendel’s parents? 4. What did Grendel find when he entered Herot? What did he do? 5. How did Hrothgar and his people react? 6. Who were the only survivors? 7. How long was Herot empty? 8. What object did Grendel never touch? Why? 9. How did
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that fiend‚ Grendel‚ who haunted the moors‚ the wild Marshes‚ and made his home in a hell” (l. 16-18). All the way through the poem the devilish monster Grendel‚ that has hate towards Herot Hall and the meeting of his men partying. In line for to this he waits on them till after partying are over in the Herot Hall once the men are intoxicated and comes in and murder Hrothgar’s men parting him to live in grief and mourn the death of his men. The funeral Beowulf demanded before he die also
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