Film & Fiction: Beowulf 2

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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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