Beowulf and the Anglo Saxons

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Beowulf and the Anglo Saxons
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Beowulf
FAME COMES TO THE MEN WHO MEAN TO WIN IT. -
BEOWULF
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BEOWULF NOTES

• Started in the oral tradition, passed down by
  scops (traveling minstrels)
• Written in the 1000s in Old English

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BEOWULF NOTES

• Hero a man distinguished
• by nobility, strength, and courage above all
  others

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BEOWULF NOTES

• 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

• Exs. Virgils Anied, Dantes Divine
  Comedy/Inferno,
• Miltons Paradise Lost, Tolkeins
  Lord of the Ring

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BEOWULF TRAILER

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vv9qpqyO_dmU

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Beowulf
Here are a few of the many variations of pictures
featuring Beowulf and other characters from the
great epic poem Beowulf.
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Authentic photographs of a helmet, ship, and
shield that wouldve been used during the time in
which Beowulf takes place 6th century A.D.
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Tales of the Heroic Ages Siegfried and Beowulf
by George T. Tobin in 1901
Beowulf battling Breca.
Beowulf landing on Danish soil.
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The death of Beowulf
Beowulf in Herot
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Drawings from J.R. Skeltons 1908 Childrens book
on Beowulf
Grendel!
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John Gardner wrote a novel called Grendel,
written about Beowulf from Grendels point of
view.
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Beowulf was turned into a comic book/graphic
novel by Garith Hinds.
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Beowulf has been made into several film versions.
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The Illustrated Political Beowulf

• http//greenehamlet.com/beowulf/index.html