Mark Griffith
They follow the lead, and Beowulf enters a deep, dark cave where he finds Grendel's mother. She drags him to the bottom of the lake, where their battle starts. Beowulf is invulnerable to her attacks because he is protected by the power of his sword, which was made by the legendary ...
aOld English was a diverse group of dialects, reflecting the varied origins of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Great Britain[36] but one of these dialects, Late West Saxon, eventually came to dominate, and it is in this that the poem Beowulf is written. 老英语是一个不同的小组方言,反射英国(...
Which is to say, I have been responding as Eliot responded to his confusing, chaotic world, only I do so as a scholar rather than as a poet. When this world resisted Modernist attempts to formulate tidy generalizations, they grabbed whatever was around them. A character in Kate Atkinson’s...
Long before he becomes the master of evil, Gru (Oscar® nominee Steve Carell) is just a 12-year-old boy in 1970s suburbia, plotting to take over the world from his basement. It’s not going particularly well. When Gru crosses paths with the Minions, including Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and...
Ork is a theologian, one who studies the theories behind religion. Mistaking Grendel for the Destroyer, the supreme Scylding deity, Ork describes ultimate wisdom as a vision of a universe in which nothing is lost or wasted. Ork is one of only a few priests in the novel for whom religion...
D.G. Scragg
McCullough, Joseph A. Dragonslayers from Beowulf to St George Illustrated by Peter Dennis Osprey (Adventures), 2013, pp80, 10.99 [pounds sterling] 978 1 78096 730 1 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This is a very useful resource book about dragons and their role...
to offer a fresh reading of Beowulf Comparing the poem's digressive, non-linear style to the symptoms displayed by sufferers of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Ted Morrissey argues that Beowulf is a product of a 'trauma culture'. Chapter 1 outlines ...