of Sigurd and Gudrún I said: ‘Of its nature it is not to be judged by views prevailing in contemporary scholarship. It is intended rather as a presentation and record of his perceptions, in his own day, of a literature that he greatly admired.’ The same could be said of this book....
Gather around the fire, men of old, grab a cup of your strongest mead and listen to a tale of knights, heroes, drunken men who are carried off in the night, and monsters.Beowulf, the epic poem of Medieval origin, tells the tale of a Nordic hero who not only bravely faced a monster...
n[15]\n\n{Wulfgar invites the strangers in.}\n\n Wulfgar went then, this word-message shouted:\n 20 \"My victorious liegelord bade me to tell you,\n The East-Danes' atheling, that your origin knows he,\n And o'er wave-billows wafted ye welcome are hither,\n Valiant of spirit....
as he does in two other original works in this book. The first, “The Lay of Beowulf,” retells the fight with Grendel in seven ballad-like stanzas, as if minstrels had inherited the story later in the Middle Ages. It’s a charming poem, all the more so because Christopher Tolkien ...
When the typhus fever had fulfilled its mission of devastation at Lowood, it gradually disappeared from thence; but not till its virulence and the number of its victims had drawn public attention on the school. Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came...
某合作学习小组讨论辨析以下说法：①粗盐和碱石灰都是混合物；②沼气和水煤气都是可再生资源；③冰和水混合物不是混合物而是纯净物；④不锈钢和目前流通的硬币都是合金；⑤盐酸和食醋既是化合物又是酸；⑥纯碱和烧碱都是碱；⑦豆浆和雾都是胶体。上述说法正确的是（ ）