ENGL 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Freawaru, Ingeld, Future History
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What might be called an apparent digression (feud) Not a piece of the past, but a piece of the future. Beowulf poet beowulf talks about freawaru audience in the future. Future for beowulf, but past for the audience. Danes / headobards - reunited in peace through marriage of freawaru and ingeld. Patriarial lineage marriage - woman goes to the man"s tribe/family and joins them. Young danish warriors were sent as her escorts. 2053 - some son or some other killer . 2049 - controlled the field = they won. Old fighter of headobards remembers it all. Old danish warriors would have taken the stuff from the old headobard warriors and gifted it to their children (young danish warriors) The marriage is only good in name at best. Slain warriors are cremated in burned pyre. Loss of fire in the sense of power and age. Ashwood - references to weapons (what they are made of)
