Mark Griffith
384 F. LENEGHAN [The fourth vice is ira, which is anger in English; it causes a person not to have control over his mind and results in manslaughters and many evils.]4 The Beowulf-poet was clearly familiar with the Christian conception of anger as sinful and destructive.5 Hence through...
sustains and underlies the ways in which the poem constructs masculinity, pointing to a continual process in which "masculinity, and its power, ha[s] to be earned" at the expense of other men.12 Masculinity in Beowulf is a zero-sum-game: predicated on the failure of others to be ...
of how much money and material they already have. These corporations do not need these items, while my sibling does. Even though mainstream society may see the actions of my sibling as immoral, there is no violence being implemented towards another person, which is why I still love and ...
The narrator is a Christian because he/she is saying that it is good for a person to be with the Lord after they die which is heaven. Who is Beowulf's king? Hygelac Why do Beowulf and a group of Geats travel to Hrothgar's kingdom? Hrothgar needs men, so they come to defeat Gren...
17–44) argues that the first part of the poem reflects a shift in hunting practices, from a model based on the hunter consuming whatever is caught (the “immediate-return hunter”, i.e., Grendel), to one in which the spoils are shared out by a lord (the “delayed-return hunter”,...
Beowulf is the greatest of the surving works composed in Old English. An Epic poem, Beowulf was composed orally in a form of poetry in which each line is effectively split in half, with the first half linking with the second alliteratively. It is the epic story of Beowulf, the man's ...
D.G. Scragg
A Beowulf Handbook, ed. Robert E. Bjork and John N. Niles (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997). 466 pp. ISBN 0-85989-543-2. 40.00 [pounds sterling]. Eighteen chapters of this handbook, each written by a different Beowulf scholar, map scholarly trends in...Jan Cermak...
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...