ENGL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Satan, Hagiography
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Various bishops and monks that go to him to receive healing and advice. Last request of how he will be disposed of. as he dies, there is a light that falls before him, and a sweet scent that accompanies him. Translation: the process of moving a dead person"s body to another place. Tae gunthlac"s body which is uncorrupted and put him in a chapel to give him a nice burial site. The location is in unknown territory that is also dangerous. Composed of the wild, untamed land that scares people. Composed of a hybrid land; some is wet, some is solid and dry. He is on a bedrock island and there is a barrow. Of very ancient origin as well as pagan. Here barrows are a border between life and death, and even religious salvation: direct connection to cohen"s category crisis, but also buel"s interplace connectedness theory, demons: Regardless of how they look, most of them are humanoid in characteristics.
