{"id":20231,"date":"2024-08-29T12:25:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=20231"},"modified":"2024-11-13T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:40:36","slug":"who-else-has-heard-of-beowulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2024\/08\/29\/who-else-has-heard-of-beowulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Who else has heard of Beowulf?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you haven\u2019t, it\u2019s okay, I just recently read this epic tale myself. Also to note, Epics are long literary poems that tell tales of heroes and legends.\u00a0 It\u2019s literally an Epic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This was an interesting read. A long one, but it still eventually caught my attention.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t have read this story on my own though. I read this for a class assignment and for it to be a learning experience for my test. This story was kind of wild. <\/span><\/p>\n

For some context, Beowulf is a 3,182-line Old English poem about a Scandinavian warrior who helps this king defeat this monster. Then he goes to defeat some more monsters. The warrior of course is Beowulf, and he\u2019s described to have the traits of loyalty, courageousness, and wiseness. He is super strong and can even hold his breath for hours. So, you know, what you would expect a classic hero to be like. The monster he went to get rid of is named Grendel. He\u2019s described to be a giant monster with clawed hands and feet and jagged fangs. But his appearance has been depicted in different ways, but this is what is in the poem. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beowulf did end up finding Grendel and the battle ended with Beowulf cutting off Grendel\u2019s limbs.\u00a0 This is where the journey starts<\/span><\/p>\n

After killing Grendel, Beowulf was awarded with land and some titles. He became a notorious hero, and since his fame grew big, more people requested his heroic help.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, the next person he ended up battling was Grendel\u2019s mother.\u00a0 Yup, she was like, \u201cI\u2019m about to avenge my son and no one is going to stop me\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beowulf\u2019s battle with her though was kind of tougher to beat. To point out, she was a sea-creature monster that lived in a black lake that was boiling and filled with monsters.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She was biting his shoulder, trying to gash out his eyes, and some more stuff.\u00a0 From what I remember reading, at some point it seemed as if the monster defeated Beowulf.\u00a0 Which was a bad thing that led to a bigger bad thing.\u00a0 The first bad thing was it leading to some of Beowulf\u2019s army betraying him by abandoning him without checking if he was actually gone first.\u00a0 Which led to him getting revenge, but back to the battle.\u00a0 Beowulf did defeat the sea monster.\u00a0 He killed her by slicing her head off.\u00a0 The poem itself got really descriptive about it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Like I said, Beowulf was out here doing some things. Heroic things as they call it, but for it to be a poem it was some real serious actions and descriptions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Before the next battle Beowulf had to teach his people a little lesson about loyalty.\u00a0 So, he did what most heroes in epics would do and threw the severed head of the monster he defeated onto the dinner table while everyone was eating.\u00a0 Yep.\u00a0 Just tossed it while they were enjoying their mead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn’t stop their y\u2019all.\u00a0 But at this point I had gotten kind of tired while reading and missed a big plot which I\u2019ll eventually get back to, but I did read the last battle.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was against a dragon. Yes! You heard it folks, he battled the huge reptile that steals everyone’s jewels and things like that.\u00a0 Now, this battle was huge, and usually I would tell you how it ended.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But! I\u2019m not going to do that this time.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Use this as your motivation to read this Epic and experience the journey along with me.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On a new note, I\u2019ve found out that the battles had some symbolism in them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you haven\u2019t, it\u2019s okay, I just recently read this epic tale myself. Also to note, Epics are long literary poems that tell tales of heroes and legends.\u00a0 It\u2019s literally an Epic. This was an interesting read. A long one, but it still eventually caught my attention.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t have read this story on my … Continue reading “Who else has heard of Beowulf?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20259,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions\/20259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}