Film & Fiction: Beowulf 2

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Reading (novel)

Beowulf

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Today:

Reading (novel)

Beowulf

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Reading (novel)

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Film & Fiction:

Beowulf

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Last lesson:

- Origin

- Form

- Plot

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Today:

- Repeating Origin

- Germanic characteristics

- Characters

- Poetic devices

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Beowulf. The history

Poem - often considered the first piece of written English poetry/literature
Written in Old English
Manuscript from around 1000 A.D.
But! Oral tradition

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Caedmon's hymn & Beowulf

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The Beowulf Manuscript

Old English (+/- 500 A.D to +/- 1150 A.D)

After this came

Middle English (1150 A.D. - 1500 A.D.)

and Modern English (1500 AD - now)

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Original:

Hwæt! Wé Gárdena in géardagum,

þéodcyninga þrym gefrúnon·

hú ðá æþelingas ellen fremedon.

Translation:

Listen! We --of the Spear-Danes in the days of yore,

of those clan-kings-- heard of their glory.

how those nobles performed courageous deeds.

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Germanic characteristics

1. Courage in battle

2. Loyalty to the king

3. Belief in Monsters/Demons

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Characters

Hroðgar (Hrothgar)

Beowulf

Grendel

mother of Grendel

Wiglaf

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