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BEOWULF

□ Anglo-Saxon epic; the only complete epic of its kind in an andent Germanie

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q a łona narratiye poem set against a background which reveafs to us the culture and society of the Heroic Ągę of the Germanie peoples; well rooted in the eyeryday experience of the audienceTfitslolhel^lture of described times (huntjng, gittTand granlś^fTaridlor loyal service to the king, knowtedge of warfaf^betief irTugresrdemons^giahts, warnor’s duty of revenge)

s Wesei ils airtdealized heroic śóciety: beloyed and carińp kina loyal warriors-ojdinary peopłe are not mentioned.

1 the ultimate origin of the poem is folklore and a variety of popular lays; the tradition of Scandinavian sagas

- o a_wgrk_of- one author-writing in the-VIII century (composed próbably by the refashioning of short lays [songs], stories, tales, legends and putting the together)

o text meant for orał recitation to some kind of musical accompaniment

>    yisual and sensual

>    sound is very important, =

>    needs to have a slow action for people to fol Iow the story

>    often repeats thidgs to rernind the audience of the most important facts

□    survived in a manuscript from 1010.

□    characters:    Peate- Fmnks Frhhn^

o place of action: Denmark and south Sweden (saw as part of the same cultural