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The action inBeowulflargely takes places between Danes and Geats. Beowulf and his troops are Geats, and Hrothgar and his people are Danes. For the first two-thirds of the poem, the events take place in Denmark near Heorot, the seat of the Scylding family. The final third takes place ac...
Many modernBeowulftranslations, while excellent in their own ways, suffer from what Kathleen Biddick might call “melancholy” for an oral and aural way of poetic making. By and large, they tend to preserve certain familiar features of Anglo-Saxon verse as it has been constructed by editors, ...
___ embellish the whole of Beowulf. For example the sea is often “swan’sway” or “whale-path”; a soldier is often a “ shield-hololder or battle-hero” , etc.A.PersonificationsB.AlliterationsC.UnderstatementsD.Kennings的答案是什么.用刷刷题APP,
PDF Downloads Lesson Plans Teaching Guide Short-Answer Quizzes Themes: Good vs. EvilPDF Cite Share In this epic poem, as in many of the classic epics, good and evil are clearly defined. Though the poem was composed and transmitted orally for many years in the pre-Christian era, once...