BEOWULF by gaia minutoli https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng A national epic en-us 2017-12-11 13:58:37 UTC 2021-03-18 21:48:59 UTC hello@padlet.com A LONG POEM OF OVER 3,000 LINES, WRITTEN IN ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD ENGLISH gaiaminutoli1 https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215007423 2017-12-11 14:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215007423 PROBABLY COMPOSED IN THE 7th CENTURY BUT WRITTEN IN THE 10th CENTURY gaiaminutoli1 https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215007968 2017-12-11 14:01:16 UTC https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215007968 WAS THE POEM COMPOSED AND WRITTEN AS WE KNOW IT TODAY OR DID IT GRADUALLY GROW AND TAKE SHAPE AS IT WAS TRANSMITTED ORALLY FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION? gaiaminutoli1 https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215008773 NO ONE KNOWS]]> 2017-12-11 14:02:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215008773 IT WAS NAMED AFTER ITS SCANDINAVIAN HERO BUT LATER BECAUSE IT WAS ORIGINALLY UNTITLED gaiaminutoli1 https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215010374 2017-12-11 14:05:46 UTC https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215010374 COMPOSED AS AN ELEGY FOR A KING WHO DIED, IT HAS NO HISTORICAL REAL ELEMENTS. gaiaminutoli1 https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215011439 2017-12-11 14:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215011439 THE PLOT gaiaminutoli1 https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215013545 THREE PARTS
1. KING HROTHGAR OF DENMARK HAS BUILT A GREAT MEAD-HALL (A LARGE BUILDING WITH A SINGLE ROOM) WHERE HIS WARRIORS CAN GATHER.
A TERRIBLE MONSTER, GRENDEL, FRIGHTENS THE DANES EVERY NIGHT, KILLING THEM FOR 12 YEARS UNTIL BEOWULF, A SCANDINAVIAN WARRIOR, DECIDES TO SAIL TO DENMARK WITH A GROUP OF MEN DETERMINED TO DEFEAT GRENDEL. HE KILLS THE MONSTER ONE NIGHT.
2. BUT GRENDEL'S MOTHER COMES TO SEEK REVENGE FOR HER SON. SHE LIVES IN A DESOLATRE LAKE SO GRENDEL TRAVELS TO THE DARK LAKE AND KILLS HER. THEN HE BECOMES KING OF THE GEATS AND RULES FOR 50 YEARS.
3. WHEN BEOWULF IS AN OLD MAN HE HAS TO FIGHT AGAINST A FIRE DRAGON . HE KILLS THE MONSTER BUT IS MORTALLY WOUNDED. ACOORDING TO HIS WISHES, HIS BODY IS BURNT AND THEN BURIED IN A GRAVE OVERLOOKING THE SEA]]> 2017-12-11 14:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215013545 THE THEMES gaiaminutoli1 https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215026252 A WARRIOR SOCIETY WITH RELATHIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE LEADER (OR KING) AND THE THANES: THE THANES DEFEND THE INTERESTS OF THE KING IN RETURN FOR MATERIAL SUPPLIES: WEAPONS, ARMOUR, GOLD, FOOD. 
A WORLD RULED BY FATE.
IT IS QUITE CERTAIN THAT BEOWULF WAS COMPOSED IN A CHRISTIANISED ENGLAND. YET THE ONLY BIBLICAL REFERENCES ARE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT AND CHRIST IS NEVER MENTIONED.
NEVERTHELESS THE STRUGGLE IN THE POEM IS GOOD AGAINST EVIL.  ]]> 2017-12-11 14:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215026252 THE LANGUAGE gaiaminutoli1 https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215030381 TYPICAL ELEMENTS OF EPIC STYLE:
- REPETITION 
- DIGNIFIED VERSES (HIGH LANGUAGE)
- LONG LISTS TO CREATE MAGNIFICENCE
- ALLITTERATION (LINES DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS BOUND TOGETHER BY ALLITTERATION)
- STOCK FORMULAE (METAPHORS TO GIVE TIME THE SCOP TO THINK ABOUT THE OTHER HALF OF THE LINE)
- KENNINGS: THE MOST KNOWN FORMULAES
- PARALLELISMS AND ANTITHESIS
- BINDING OF HALF-LINES INTO SENTENCES, SENTENCES INTO EPISODES, EPISODES INTO A STORY]]> 2017-12-11 14:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215030381 BEOWULF gaiaminutoli1 https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215035373 2017-12-11 14:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/gaiaminutoli1/okxpsejpkng/wish/215035373