Beowulf: How A Legendary Poem Offers A Portal To Our Ancient Past | Literary Classics

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature, and in this documentary, experts who have studied it's Anglo-Saxon origins weigh in on its importance.

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[dieseldreng]

I read of Beowulf in Saxo Grammaticus and the Lejre Kings. You can visit a reconstruction of the halls. They are spectacular

[redwolf]

Anglo here from the furthest reaches of our peoples spread Australia 🇦🇺. Love the old history and poetry of our ancestors

[patriciagerresheim]

My feeling is that 'Beowulf' is older than scholars think, and the earliest versions may have been composed in the time period and locality of its setting, i.e. 4th/5th-century Scandinavia The 8th-century poet who composed the version we know best based his work on those early models, and it was probably the monk who wrote it down who shoehorned the Christian elements into it.

The 'reclamation' of ancestors is reminiscent of the modern Latter-Day Saints, who are interested in genealogy into to retroactively bring their ancestors into the fold.

[sfinxwojerz]

no way my favourite poem and favourite channel made a video on it . Made my day.

[totw]

Thank you for sharing knowledge. Beautiful!

[candidlens]

One wishes there was more content such as this.

[gerryhouska]

I was married to Grendel's mother.

[GarnetNewfree]

Where are the Britons then, you see this story origins in Denmark finalised in what is now Hartlepool by Britons, remember Scandinavian people and Indigenous Britons were one and the same, there were no passports and in general Christians were the enemy, Christians write there version of British history.

[barackosama]

Named my son Beowulf after this hero. He's into these marvel "heros" and shit.. didn't even know he was named after one of the if not greatest heroes.

[robcascio]

Snicker snack, the sound of his blade. Depth of old English germanic truly moves

[a.m.]

So beowulf is to be "believed" and respected but the illiad an the oddessey are fables...?

[jonerlandson]

Sodom and Gomorrah... another old ancient tale....