6V Literature - Beowulf

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Beowulf
  • Introduction to Old English literature
  • Beowulf opening lines and extract
  • Assignments

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Old English Literature

Slide 3 - Carte mentale

Characteristics Old English Literature
  • Oral tradition
  • Importance of scop or minstrel
  • Poetry
  • No end-rhyme or fixed rythm; alliteration

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Beowulf
  • example of an epic poem
  • characteristically Germanic in content and outlook:
  •       courage in battle
  •       obedience to the king and other (war) leaders
  •       belief in magic and in dangerous demons
  • probably composed in 8th century (in England)
  • original story much older (Scandinavia)
  • earliest manuscript: c. 1000 (by anonymous monk)

Slide 5 - Diapositive

The Beowulf Manuscript - first page



(now at the British Library in London)

Slide 6 - Diapositive

Beowulf opening lines
Go to Survey p. 6

How should this be pronounced???

Slide 7 - Diapositive

Which words remind you of Dutch?

Slide 8 - Question ouverte

What attracts a modern audience to this old story?

Slide 9 - Question ouverte

Slide 10 - Vidéo

Slide 11 - Vidéo

Assignments
Do assignment 1 (3 questions) (Reader&Workbook p. 5-6)
> work together!
timer
15:00

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Correct answers (assign. 1)
the mist bands = the fog (line 1)
the cloud-murk = the dark / darkness (line 5)
the mouth of the building = the gate / the door (line 14)

his bone-lappings = his flesh (line 31)

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Correct answers
Assigment 2, ll 1-21:


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Correct answers (assign. 3)
- the alert hero (line 37)
- Hygelac’s trusty retainer (line 47)
- the man (line 50)
- the man who of all men … in the days of this life (lines 78-79)
- the earl-troop’s leader (line 80)
- their lord (line 85)
[- Hygelac’s kinsman (line 102)]
- the man who had lately landed among them (line 114)
- the Geat captain (line 117)
- the hero (line 123)

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What is your favourite line of the poem?
Write down the (part of the) sentence

Slide 17 - Question ouverte

Next literature lesson
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Middle English
Introduction to Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

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