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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE FIRST PERIOD. tsfj literature ieftre tfje Norman Conquest. CHAPTER III. Old English. Old English Poetry. The Poem of Beowulf. ?The earliest important writing in Old English is the poem of Beowulf. It celebrates events occurring in Denmark, and bears traces of Christian influence. The only manuscript preserving the narrative was written as late as the close of the tenth century, but the action seems to belong to a time as early as the seventh. Although some scholars have said that the English county of Durham was the poem's birthplace, the story is probably an old Gothic saga, gradually modified in transmission by successive gleemen. The manuscript now in the British Museum was doubtless the work of a monk, whose writing is continuous, resembling a manuscript in prose. The poem has no rhymes, for rhyming was an unknown art; but alliteration, the formal mark of all Old English poetry, lends its charm to the verses. The story is told in 3182 lines. Its recital must have stirred the courage of many an old Saxon banquet. See p. 50. As the story runs, Hrothgar, King of the Danes, and his chosen subjects were wont to sit in his great hall listening to music, and drinking for their pleasure; but their joy was disturbed by fear of Grendel, a grim and terrible giant, who dwelt in the marshes of Zealand. This monster would come into the palace at times to see how the doughty Danes found themselves after their beer-carouse. On the occasion of his first visit he slew thirty sleeping men. For twelve years he was the terror of the land. At last the story came to the ears of Beowulf, a viking who was noted for his victories over the giants of the deep. He resolved to cross the seas and go to the relief of Hrothgar. Entering the haunted hall, he promised to fight th...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217100069
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 142
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217100066
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 268 gr


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