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1) INDEPENDENT OR DEPENDENT CLAUSE?
2) SENTENCE TYPE Use your PINK notes!
give a yearbook to whoever
paid for one
“FAME COMES TO THE MEN WHO MEAN TO WIN
IT.” - BEOWULF
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BEOWULF NOTESBEOWULF NOTES
• Started in the oral tradition, passed down by scops (traveling minstrels)
• Written in the 1000s in Old English
• Started in the oral tradition, passed down by scops (traveling minstrels)
• Written in the 1000s in Old English
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BEOWULF NOTESBEOWULF NOTES
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Hero – a man distinguished
by nobility, strength, and courage above all others
Hero – a man distinguished
by nobility, strength, and courage above all others
BEOWULF NOTESBEOWULF NOTESEPIC - long narrative poem (usually oral) celebrating the deeds of hero or legendary figure
– Begins in Medias Res (middle of the story)– Serious manner / elevated language
» Ex. It uses epithets, kennings, similes– Good vs. Evil, supernatural entities– Represents national, culture or religious values
EPIC - long narrative poem (usually oral) celebrating the deeds of hero or legendary figure
– Begins in Medias Res (middle of the story)– Serious manner / elevated language
» Ex. It uses epithets, kennings, similes– Good vs. Evil, supernatural entities– Represents national, culture or religious values
Ex’s. Virgil’s Anied, Dante’s Divine Comedy/Inferno,
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B eowulf: W ho’s W ho?
Beowulf takes place in 6th century Scandanavia.
DANES (Denmark)
GEATS (Sweden)
King Hrothgar (Owner and builder of
Herot - a castle)
King Higlac (Hrothgar’s Counsin)
Beowulf (strongest warrior, nephew to Higlac)
Grendel (Monster attacking Herot;
a descendent of Cain)
Unferth (Proud Danish warrior)
Grendel’s Mom (She doesn’t get a
name…sorry)
*Beowulf agrees to help kill Grendel for
King Hrothgar.
Wiglaf (One of Beowulf’s men)
Edgetho (Beowulf’s father,
King Higlac’s brother)
Healfdane (King Hrothgar’s father)
BEOWULF TRAILERBEOWULF TRAILER
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9qpqyO_dmU
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9qpqyO_dmU
Here are a few of the many variations of pictures featuring Beowulf and other characters from the great epic poem Beowulf.
Authentic photographs of a helmet, ship, and shield that would’ve been used during the time in which Beowulf takes place – 6th century A.D.
Tales of the Heroic Ages: Siegfried and Beowulf by George T. Tobin in 1901
Beowulf battling Breca.
Beowulf landing on Danish soil.
John Gardner wrote a novel
called Grendel, written about Beowulf from
Grendel’s point of view.
Beowulf has been made into several film versions.
The Illustrated “Political”
Beowulf
The Illustrated “Political”
Beowulf
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