How To Use Beowulf In A Sentence
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Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe/Beowulf Sheehan Garrison Keillor - anecdotalist, radio host and laureate of small-town wholesomeness - is publishing a book of Interviewed about the book, Keillor found himself discussing the reaction to an anthology he published a few years ago; specifically, the admired modernist poet full-frontal assault on Keillor's "appalling taste".
The Guardian World News
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Compared to Beowulf, we are told that Hermod was treacherous, exiled along with the Jutes.
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Michael credits luck with getting past some of the trickier words that few 14-year-olds have great occasion to drop in conversation, like "occlusal," but he admits he's fond of reading "old stuff" such as "Beowulf" and "Romeo and Juliet.
News for Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Seamus Heaney is one of the United Kingdom's most respected poets and Beowulf stands as one of the greatest epic poems in English literature.
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Like, when one of the characters extolls Beowulf's deeds and says how his story will live on forever, and you think, yeah, until a millenia and a bit later when it'll get dug up, rewired into a monstrously misshapen thing, painted in gauche muticolour, and made to dance like a monkey-puppet in a Follywood Spectacular.
I Am Beowulf! You're Going Daaaaahn!
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Beowulf is not a “primitive poem;” it is a late one, using the materials (then still plentiful) preserved from a day already changing and passing, a time that has now for ever vanished, swallowed in oblivion; using them for a new purpose, with a wider sweep of the imagination, if with a less bitter and concentrated force.
Ruins and Poetry: Beowulf
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Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf ?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Denum äðeling tô yppan, _the prince_ (Beówulf), _honored by the Danes, went to the high seat_, 1815; eode ... under inwit-hrôf, 3124; pl. þær swîðferhðe sittan eodon, 493; eodon him þâ tôgeánes, _went to meet him_,
Beowulf
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The two-man chorus is lent an alliterative, Anglo-Saxon form reminiscent of Heaney's Beowulf.
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Thinking about the film, I wrote: Beowulf and Grendel is not the poem I, and perhaps some of you readers, study or have studied.
Archive 2007-07-01
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A scholar of Old English, Tolkien argued that Beowulf should be read for its literary merits.
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Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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In the poem, Beowulf fights a firedrake that has been destroying the area.
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Thinking ofBeowulf, he looked back at the word “barguest.”
A Winter Haunting
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Wailing her woe, the widow {41a} old, her hair upbound, for Beowulf's death sung in her sorrow, and said full oft she dreaded the doleful days to come, deaths enow, and doom of battle, and shame.
Beowulf
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This weirdness is something Barney presumably suffers from and Barney's assertion that the Troilus is the greatest work in English between Beowulf and The Faerie Qveene is one piece of evidence to suggest such attachment.
Archive 2008-09-01
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And let's face it, it's cooler to be a latter-day Beowulf than a burger-flipper.
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He is currently refining one paper on Anglo-Saxon queenship and another on the avunculate in Beowulf, the latter invited for Philological Quarterly.
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Beowulf had nuclear energy and nuclear weapons and contragravity and normal-space craft, they even had colonies a on a couple of other planets of their. system.
Space Viking
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Denum æðeling tō yppan, _the prince_ (Bēowulf), _honored by the Danes, went to the high seat_, 1815; ēode ... under inwit-hrōf, 3124; pl. þǣr swīðferhðe sittan ēodon, 493; ēodon him þā tōgēanes, _went to meet him_,
Beowulf
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Grendel is referred to once in Beowulf as ‘thyrse’, line 426.
Old English gods and myths: Eotens
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He asks Wiglaf to build a monument, a tomb where King Beowulf's ashes will be buried, a high tower over the old one, so sailors will see it and speak of it forevermore.
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By the seventh century, scribes had written down Anglo-Saxon Chronicles and the oral epic poem, Beowulf.
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Ah, yes, the story of Beowulf's victories will live on forever ... until we bowdlerise it by excising one-third of those victories in a revisionist rewrite where we decide * not* to have him kill Grendel's Mother after all.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Although there is no archaeological evidence for it, literature suggests that some of these wooden walled buildings may have been further strengthened by iron reinforcing bands, for example, in Beowulf.
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Shakespeare was an avid neologist," he reports, adding that Old English epics such as "Beowulf" often used fancifully evocative compounds in place of common nouns: "slaughter-dew," for instance, instead of blood .
The Soul of Brevity
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After this, Ackroyd notes, and applauds, ‘that vernacular straightforwardness… from Beowulf to the works of Sir Thomas More’.
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Michael Alexander translates ‘thyrse’ as ‘troll’ in Beowulf for the alliteration – “a trial against this troll”.
Kings of Lindsey
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Aelfhere seems to be a scop, called skald, in this story, singing the tale of Beowulf for his grandson.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Beowulf meets Grendel, and a battle ensues - Beowulf uses no weapon against Grendel, and fighting barehanded, rips off his arm.
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Hunferth calls Beowulf a ‘mudscow’; Breca and Beowulf swim like two
The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography
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Why should it be when all you ever heard was some old fogey in a dusty gown declaiming Cicero or Beowulf?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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The march his haunt--Beowulf, lines 102-103 ... walked nightlong
Old English gods and myths: Eotens
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However, I REALLY REALLY want Burton and his team to 'stylize' the characters in Wonderland to their taste, not 'Beowulf'.
First Look: Mia Wasikowska as Tim Burton’s Alice | /Film
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This book examines apposition as well as poetic compounds, amphibolies, and certain other narrative devices as keys to style and structure of Beowulf.
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That's not what Beowulf, excuse me, Weyland, would call a flanking action.
The Legacy of Heorot
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There were many stories of ancient heroes such as the tale of ‘Beowulf’ or the Norse Sagas.
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Denum æðeling tō yppan, _the prince_ (Bēowulf), _honored by the Danes, went to the high seat_, 1815; ēode ... under inwit-hrōf, 3124; pl. þǣr swīðferhðe sittan ēodon, 493; ēodon him þā tōgēanes, _went to meet him_,
Beowulf
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In Beowulf we hear ‘The outer door, bolted with iron bands, burst open at a touch from his hands… the fiend stepped onto the tessellated floor…’
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Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother
Authors textbooks and reviews
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We may note the menseful way in which Beowulf acts as regent for the deceased king's young sons.
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In terms of Irish stereotypes, Beowulf seems like a Gaelic rather than a Celtic piece of art - canny, virile and earthbound rather than dreamy, spiritual and involuted.
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The dragon has wounded him, and his poisonous venom is killing the brave Beowulf.
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The epic poem ‘Beowulf’ will be performed on the night.
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Just a few short years ago, one gigaflop of processing power running in a Beowulf cluster setup would have run you about $30,000.
Supercomputing's Next Revolution
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She doubted that he knew Grendel was the monster in Beowulf.
INSIDERS
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With the absence of humility, yet his important role in society and his ideals of chivalry, Beowulf was the definition of a hero in his own time.
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But in 2000 JIC in conjunction with Sanger Centre and funded by the BBSRC and the Beowulf Genomics initiative of the Wellcome Trust.
SuperBugs Vs Michael McArthur
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Tolkien's point on the wider sweep of imagination aside, I think there's something in the assertion that Beowulf uses materials "preserved from a day already changing and passing" to bring down though generations the story we claim we know.
Ruins and Poetry: Beowulf
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The space is scant enough for all that is told in it; scant, that is to say, in comparison with the space of the story of Beowulf; though whether the poem loses, as poetry, by this compression is another matter.
Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
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If all you're looking for is the spectacularity and novelty value of a cutting-edge 3D Hollywood Schlocksbuster, Beowulf does do the business.
Archive 2007-11-01
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In terms of Irish stereotypes, Beowulf seems like a Gaelic rather than a Celtic piece of art - canny, virile and earthbound rather than dreamy, spiritual and involuted.
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As a final gesture of revenge, Beowulf finds Grendel's body and decapitates him.
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Béowulfdigter -- indeholder en afvigende fremstilling: bryllupskampen står i den danske kongehal, og synes at være opfattet som större og voldsommere end en enkelt mands mord og hans banemands undslipning.
The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf A Contribution To The History Of Saga Development In England And The Scandinavian Countries
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The example that is often trotted out is from Beowulf where the kenning "whale road" is used to mean the sea.
