Beowulf: with the Finnesburg fragmentCharles Leslie Wrenn |
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... Hrothgar and Hrothgar's son whom he slew , is used by the Beowulf- poet as one of those ironic anticipatory allusions to events to come which are well known to the audience that are one of his devices for producing a tragic atmosphere ...
... Hrothgar and Hrothgar's son whom he slew , is used by the Beowulf- poet as one of those ironic anticipatory allusions to events to come which are well known to the audience that are one of his devices for producing a tragic atmosphere ...
Page 68
... Hrothgar is not , as we have seen earlier , specifically presented as a Christian , but only as a pious monotheist ... Hrothgar's retainers may have been thought of by the poet as less pious and aware of God than himself . It is the seem ...
... Hrothgar is not , as we have seen earlier , specifically presented as a Christian , but only as a pious monotheist ... Hrothgar's retainers may have been thought of by the poet as less pious and aware of God than himself . It is the seem ...
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... Hrothgar's family at ll . 1013-19 , touch upon events well known to the audience , and gain dramatic effect from ... Hrothgar towers high in its glory , but it is only waiting for the furious surgings of hateful flame : the ruling ...
... Hrothgar's family at ll . 1013-19 , touch upon events well known to the audience , and gain dramatic effect from ... Hrothgar towers high in its glory , but it is only waiting for the furious surgings of hateful flame : the ruling ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION page | 9 |
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 85 |
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 93 |
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æfter alliteration Anglian Anglo-Saxon audience battle bearn Beowulf bið Cædmon Chambers Christian dær Danes Danish eall editors emended by Grein emended by Grundtvig emended by Kemble emended by Thorpe English eorl episode fela Finn Frisians Geata Geats Germanic Glossary gold Grendel hæfde half-line hall Healfdenes hence Hengest Heorot hero heroic hine Hnæf Hoops Hrōpgār Hrothgar hwæt Hygd Hygelac hyrde Ingeld king Klaeber leod lost at edge mæg meahte Mercian metre næs noble noun f noun neut ofer Offa Onela pæt parallel partic passage poem poet poetic poetry pres pret pron sceal Schaubert scribe Scyld Scyldinga sẽ secg Sedgefield seems Sigemund sing subj Sutton Hoo swā sword swylce Thorkelin Transl treasure verb Vespasian Psalter wæs warrior wearð wið Widsith wolde word Zupitza þā þæm þæs þæt