Film & Fiction: Beowulf 2

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Today:

Reading (novel)

Beowulf

Reading (novel)

Film & Fiction: 

Beowulf

Last lesson:

- Origin

- Form

- Plot

Today:

- Repeating Origin 

- Germanic characteristics

- Characters   

- Poetic devices

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

Caedmon's hymn & Beowulf

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)

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.

Germanic characteristics

1. Courage in battle

2. Loyalty to the king

3. Belief in Monsters/Demons

Characters

Hroðgar (Hrothgar)

Beowulf

Grendel

mother of Grendel

Wiglaf