1) INDEPENDENT OR DEPENDENT CLAUSE?
2) SENTENCE TYPE
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BEOWULF NOTES
• Started in the oral tradition, passed
down by scops (traveling minstrels)
• Written in the 1000s in Old English
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BEOWULF NOTES
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Hero – a man distinguished
by nobility, strength, and
courage above all others
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BEOWULF NOTES
EPIC - long narrative poem (usually oral)
celebrating the deeds of hero or legendary
figure
– Begins in Medias Res (middle of the story)
– Serious manner / elevated language
» Ex. It uses epithets, kennings, similes
– Good vs. Evil, supernatural entities
– Represents national, culture or religious values
Ex’s. Virgil’s Anied, Dante’s Divine Comedy/Inferno,
Milton’s Paradise Lost, Tolkein’s Lord of the Ring
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Beowulf: Who’s Who?
Beowulf takes place in 6th century Scandanavia.
DANES
GEATS
(Denmark)
(Sweden)
GrendelΥs Mom
Healfdane
(King HrothgarΥs father)
King Hrothgar
(Owner and builder of
Herot - a castle)
Unferth
(Proud Danish warrior)
(She doesnΥtget a
nameΙs orry)
King Higlac
Edg etho
(HrothgarΥsCounsin)
(BeowulfΥs father,
King HiglacΥsbrother)
Grendel
(Monster attacking Herot;
a descendent of Cain)
Beowulf
(strongest warrior,
nephew to Higlac)
*Beowulf agrees to
help kill Grendel for
King Hrothgar.
Wiglaf
(One of BeowulfΥs men)
BEOWULF
TRAILER
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9
qpqyO_dmU
Here are a few of the many
variations of pictures
featuring Beowulf and
other characters from the
great epic poem Beowulf.
Authentic
photographs of a
helmet, ship, and
shield that would’ve
been used during
the time in which
Beowulf takes place
– 6th century A.D.
Tales of the Heroic
Ages: Siegfried and
Beowulf by
George T. Tobin in
1901
Beowulf battling Breca.
Beowulf landing on Danish soil.
The death of Beowulf
Beowulf in Herot
Drawings from J.R. Skelton’s
1908 Children’s book on
Beowulf
John Gardner
wrote a novel
called Grendel,
written about
Beowulf from
Grendel’s point
of view.
Beowulf was turned into a comic book/graphic
novel by Garith Hinds.
Beowulf has been made into
several film versions.
The Illustrated
“Political” Beowulf
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 http://greenehamlet.com/beowulf/index.html