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The Subject Matter(5)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | 8:48 pmMourning their dead champion .the people of Jutland composed a dirge praising the great deeds of Beowulf who
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To his kin the kindest,reared a mighty pile
With shields and armour hung ,as he had asked
And in the midst the warriors laid their lord
Lamenting.Then the warriors on the mound
Kindled a mighty bale fire ;the smoke rose
Black from the Swedish pine ,the sound of flame.
Mingled with sound of weeping;…while smoke
Spreads over heaven ,Then upon the hill
High,broad ,and to be seen far out at sea.
In ten days they had built and walled in it
As the wise thought most worthy ;placed in it
Rings,jewels ,other treasures form the hoard .
They left the riches ,golden joy of earls,
In dust,for earth to hold;where yet it lies,
Useless as ever ,Then about the mound
The warriors rode,and raised a mournful song
For their dead king;exalted his brave deeds,
Holding it fit men honour their lord,
Praise him and love him when his soul is fled .
Thus the (Geat’s)people ,shaised him of kings,of men
The mildest and the kindest ,and to all
His people gentlest ,yearning for their praise.
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The Subject Matter(4)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 | 1:46 amThe closing part of the poem tells now one of Beowulf’s subjects stole some of the treasure which a firedrake had for three hundred years been guarding in a cavern.The enraged monster with his fiery breath laid waste the land.Beowulf sought the dragon in his cavern and after a terrible fight slew the monster,but was himself mortally wounded ,and died after seeing in the cavern the heaos f treasure which he had won for his people ,The dying hero was glad to learn that by his death he has gained more wealth for his people.He instucted Wiglaf ,who was to succeed him ,how to bury his body and how to rule the country after his death ,His last words were full of care for the future of his land.
According to Beowulf’s last will ,the people of Jutland built a large bonfire on a headland which stretched far into the sea and cremated the hero’s body .Then they laid all the treasures form the dragon’s cave with Beowulf’s ashes to show that the gold could in no way compensate their great loss,and buried them under a tremendous mound ,They piled the earth and stones so high that ,in accordance with Beowulf’s will.the mound thereafter became a beacon for the seafarers who sailded along the coast ,Thus,envn after his death ,Beowulf continued to serve the people.Mbts Mbt shoes Mbt sale Mbt shoes uk Mbt Mbt shoe
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The Snbjuct Matter（3）
Saturday, November 28, 2009 | 1:47 amFinally Beowulf,with a grip like that of thirty men,tore away the arm and shoulder of the monster,who rushed out to the marshes to die.The next night a banquet was given in fateful Heorot in honor of the hero.After the feast ,the warriors slept in the hall,but Beowulf went to the place .He had been gone but a short time.When in rushed Grendel’s mother to avenge the death of her son.She seized a warrior ,the king’s dearest friend .and carried him away.Mbt sale Mbt Sport Mbt Chapa Mbt Lami MBT shoes
Beowulf followed the bloody trail of Grendel’s mother to the terrible flood.Undaunted by the dragons and seroents that made their home within the deoths,he grasped asword and plunged beneath the waves.After sinking what seemed to him a day’s space .he saw Grendel’s mother.who came forward to meet him.She dragged him into her dwelling,where there was no water ,and the fight began.The issue was for a time doubtful ,but at last Beowulf ran her through with a gigantic sword,and she fell dead upon the floor of her dwelling .A little distance away ,he saw the dead body of Grendel .The hero cut off the heads of the monster and his mother and hastened away to Hrothgar’s court .After receiving much praise and many presents ,Beowulf sailed homeward with his warriors ,where he ruled as king for fifty years.
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The Snbjuct Matter（2）
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | 3:22 amThis peom of 3182 lines dsecribes the deeds of the Teutonic hero Beowulf .Hrothgar ,the King of the Dances ,built a magnificent mead hall to which he gave the name of Heorot . While the Dance were eating and dringking their fill in this famous hall,Grendel , a monster half-human ,came from the moor ,burst in upon them ,mangled thirty warriors,and then rushed off into the darkness,For twelve years this monster harried the warriors whenever they feasted in the hall.until the bravest were afraid to enter it. When Beowulf heard of this ,he sailed with his warriors to Heorot ,and persuaded the Danes to feast with him in the fall.After they had fallen asleep there ,Grendel burst in the door,seized a warrior ,and devoured him in a few mouthfuls .Then he grasped Beowulf .The hero,disdaining to use a sword against the dire monster,grappled with him ,and together they wrestled up and down the hall.In their mad contest they overturned the tables and made the vast hall tremble as if it were in the throes of an earthquake.Mbt Chapa Mbt walking shoes discount Mbt shoes
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The Snbjuct Matter（part 1)
Monday, November 23, 2009 | 7:59 pmMBT Mbt trainers Mbt sport shoes Mbt m walk Mbt Chapa
This poem of 3182 lines describes the deeds of the Teutonic hero Beowulf .Hrothgar,the King of the Danes, built a magnificent mead hall to which he gave the name of Heorot While the Danes were eating and drinking their fill in this famous hall,Grendel.a monster half-human ,came from the moo,burst in upon them.mangled theity warriors,and then rushed off into the darkness.For twelve years this monster harried the warriors whenever they feasted in the hall,until the bravest were afraid to enter it.When Beowulf heard of this ,he sailed with warriors to Heorot，and persuaded the Danes to feast with him in the hall.After they had fallen asleep there .Grendel brish in the door ,seized a warrior,and devoured him in a few mouthfuls .Then he grasped Beowulf .The hero,sisdaining to use a sword against the dire monster ,,grappled with him ,and together they wrestleed up and down th;e hall.In their mad contest they overturned the tables and made the vast hall tremble as if it were in the throes of an earthquake
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one of the national heroes of the English people—Beowulf
Friday, November 20, 2009 | 10:04 pmThe song of Beowulf can be justly thrmed England’s national epic and its hero Beowulf——one of the national heroes of the English people.
The only existing manuscript of The Song of Beowulf was writen by an unknown scribe at the beginning of the 10th century and was not discovered until 1705.The Song was compased much earlier, and rerflects events which took palce on the Continent approximately at the beginning of the 6th century ,when the forefathers of the Jutes lived in the southern part of the Scandinavian peninsula and maintained close relations with kindred tribes,e.g.with the Danes who lived on the other side of the straits.
The whole epic consists of 3182 line and is to be divided into two parts with an interpa;ation between the two .The whole song os essentinally pagan in spirit and matter ,while the interpolation is obviously an addition made by the Christian who copied The Song,Other elements,alien to the original text of the epic,can be easily traced in the text of the manuscript and do not thwart the style of the whole.
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The Literature
Friday, November 20, 2009 | 1:04 amThe literature of this period falls maturally into two divisions——pagan and Christian.The fromer represents the poetry which the Anglo-Saxons probably brought with them in the form of oral sagas——the crude material out of which literature was slowly developed on English soil; the latter represents the writings developed under teaching of the monks,After the old pagan religion had vanished,it still retained its hold on the life and language of the people.In reading the earliest poetry of England it is well to remember that all of it was copied by the monks,and seem to have been more or less altered to give it a raligious coloring.
The coming of Christainity meant not simply a new life and leader for England;it meant also the wealth of a new language,The scop is now replaced by the literary monk;and that monk ,though he lives among common people and speaks with the English tongue,has behind him all the culture and literaty resouces of the Latin language.The effect is seen instantly in English early prose and poetry.
More voluminous are the the survivals of the Christian poetry preserved in the monasteries .Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention Caedmon who lived in the latter half of the 7th century and who wrote a poetic Paraphrase of the Bible,and Cynewulf,the author of poems on religious subjects ,who lived a century later.
But the names of those who preserved and put down in written forn the surviving pieces of old Anglo-Saxon poetry ,have sunk into oblivion.And yet these unknown scribes probably deserce to ocupy a higher place in the history of English literature than the two abovementioned ecclesiastic poets.It os these unknown scribes that passed down to later generations the great epic——the song of beowulf and such poems as Widsith or The Traveller’s Soon,and the Seafarer.
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THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
Friday, November 20, 2009 | 1:02 amAfter the fall of the Roman Emoir and the with,Bdrawal of Roman troops from Albion,the aboriginal Celtic population of the larger part of the island was soon conquered and almost totally exterminated by the teutonic tribes of Angles,Saxons and Jutes who came from the continent and settled in the siland,nameing its central part Anglia or England.
For nearly four hundred years prior to the coming of the English,Britain had been a Roman province.In 410 A.D. the Romans withdrew their legions from Britain to protect Rome herself against swarms of Theutonic invaders.About 449 aband of Teutons,called Jutes,left Denmark,landed on the Isle of Thanet Warriors from the tribes of the Angles and the saxons soon followed,and drove westward the original inhabitants.
Before the invasion of Britain,the Teutons inhabited the central part of Europe as far south as the Rhine,a tract which in a large meansure coincides with modern Germany.The Jutes,Angles,and Saxons were different tribes of Teutons.Thses ancestors of the English dwelt in Denmark and in the lands extending southward along the North sea.
The Angles,an important Teutouic tribe,furnished the name for the new home,which was called Angle-land afterward shortened into England.The language spoken by these tribes is generally called Anglo-Saxon or Saxon.
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