EN 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intertextuality, Sutton Hoo, Gildas
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Key words: anglo-saxon, old english, epic, geats, danes, grendel, analogue, saga, translation, conversion, thane, grendel"s mother, middle ages, medieval, pagan, migration, conquest, fratricide, free will. Source: see a direct lineage, generations of stories. Analog: has certain motifs, much vaguer/more general than a source. By giving grendel so much sympathy -> is that going against the grain in the original. I, grendel and the scop: why does grendel attack heorot, grendel eats people. A bold demon who waited in darkness wretchedly suffered all the while : poet has many different ways referring to grendel (adjectives) Hygelac: history and myth: see genealogy (159, hygelac is beowulf"s uncle and ord. Liber monstrorum (159) there are also monsters of amazing size, like king higlacus, who ruled the getae and was slain by the franks . Viii-ix, unferth: one of hrothgar"s thanes (=retainers, tries to embarrass beowulf, calls into question his reputation and boasting, specifically the swimming contest with.
