‘bright, clear of light and sound, loud or shining’. Outside Old English we have Old High German helliruna ‘necromancia’, and the extremely interesting though corruptly preserved Gothic word, half-Latinized, haliurunnas in Jordanes’ history of the Goths, which he says means magas ...
Beowulf is not the old school poem. It's a story retold like mythical tales that have different revisions. A wolf becomes a bear, a bear becomes a troll, a troll becomes a dragon, etc. It's like another take on an old story, and told from the lips of a different story teller; th...
The Anglo-Saxon time period in Britain was one of excitement and innovation--a time that gave birth to the English language. Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon poem that is commonly taught in high school, achieves Old English epic greatness. Although the poem caue
“Me this war-gear the wise old prince, Hrothgar, gave, and his hest he added, that its story be straightway said to thee. — A while it was held by Heorogar king, for long time lord of the land of Scyldings; yet not to his son the sovran left it, to daring Heoroweard, — ...
a只有主席身边的几个人 Only then president side several people[translate] a机电房 Mechanical and electrical room[translate] aat scale at scale[translate] a去年来到你学校,你跟她相处很好 正在翻译,请等待...[translate] aadrian H7天前[translate] ...
In this famous Old English literature, the supernatural forces appear mostly as horrible monsters for Beowulf to prove his strength and overcome. One of the three behemoths that Beowulf must fight is Grendel. At line 104 we learn that Grendel is “a mighty stalker of the marches, who held ...
John Gardner offers an alternate interpretation of the old english epic “Beowulf” by narrating the experiences of the monster Grendel, after whom the book is named. Grendel conveys himself as a homicidal, ravenous beast, only capable of destruction and chaos. Therefore, one can conclude that Gr...
Walkden takes it a step further by presenting evidence to support the use of thehwaet-clauseas exclamative inBeowulf. The most convincing are examples from Jessica Rett’s analyses of the use of hwæt in other sources like the Old EnglishBedeand the Old SaxonHeliland. Using Walkden’s in...
Susan Cooper’sThe Dark is Rising is one of my all time favorites. I can still remember the boxset that my aunt gave me—for years I was terrified of the cover image, with the Rider on the rearing horse outside of Will Stanton’s house. But once I finally got up the courage to ...
Then on the sand was laden the boat of bulwarks wide,The ringed craft was laden with armor side by side, With horses and with treasures. The mast aloft it soared Over Hrothgar's olden piled treasure-hoard. Beowulf gave the Boat Guard a gold-bound sword; And ever thereafter upon the ...