Beowulf

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the value of the poem, we must realize that judging the poem from a twentieth century point of view would be unjust to the author or authors of .
One of the most pleasing trends in recent old English studies has been the increasing awareness of the truth and importance of this simple observation. It is one which often has been overlooked by scholars and the ever growing critics. These people prefer to regard as a source book for historians. Some people tend to overlook the meanings of and perceive them in a wrong manner. In a profound lecture given by J.R.R.Tolkien in 1963, he tried to do what many people were trying to do, make sense of . He gave an amusing and persuasive summary of the variety of theories of ’s poet’s ideas and aims.
Tolkien said, “ is a half baked native epic which was killed by Latin learning, it is feeble and incompetent as a narrative.”(Crossley.9-17). Tolkien also said much more on behalf of ’s poet. It is not the fault of the poet but the result ...

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Denmark and the southern tip of Sweden. Hrothgar, whose great hall was somewhere on the island of Zealand, is their king in the beginning of the poem. Other characters are accounted for in the course of the narrative in the rest of the poem. The Swedes, whose hostilities among themselves and against the Geats through three generations are featured in the installments during the final third of the poem, live in Sweden north of the Great Lakes.(Rebsamen; 38-35)
The action of takes place in Scandinavia, where a troll like cannibalistic creature of the darkness named Grendal takes such a passionate exception to the constant revelry that he takes to the great hall of Herot, with a ...

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