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Was Grendel just a Norf?

>> No.17228150

>>17228148
looks like a purebreed nigger to me

>> No.17228153

>>17228148
Is Beowulf the peak of Anglo literature?

>> No.17228165

>>17228153
always tought that beowulf was german, wtf

>> No.17228180

>>17228165
Angles were a Germanic tribe, dumbfuck.

>> No.17228182

>>17228165
yeh that's why it was written in english

>> No.17228186
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>>17228165
dumbest shit i've ever read on /lit/

>> No.17228196

>>17228165
It is a hark back to England's medieval/pagan origin which is all the more neglected, when compared to how much Scandinavia's sagas are inextricably linked with the modern identity.

>> No.17228210

>>17228196
I mean, yes but it's mainly because we don't have much text go off as Englishmen. The Scandinavians have the Old Norse texts, which is the only large body of writing about Germanic paganism.

>> No.17228243

>>17228210
That's what I meant, it's neglected and as a result is not in the slightest connected with what is English, but because of the luck of the Germanics they have many to pride themselves on.

>> No.17229031

>>17228148
Grendel dindu norfin

>> No.17229057

>>17228165
Beowulf is a Geat (swede) and the Danes are Danes, but the poem is English.

>> No.17229088

>>17228153
We just don't know because so much of the early texts have been lost to time throughout the ages

>> No.17229124

>>17228148
Grendel was a Sasquatch

>> No.17229138

>>17228148
Grendel was a Jotunn

>> No.17229150

There is much old english literature preserved, it's not considered as interesting though since it is christian.

>> No.17229164

>>17228210
>Germanic paganism
It's Norse paganism. Stop trying to appropriate it. You fucing Germans and angloniggers were getting fucked by Caesar's fat cock while us nords were maintaining our culture

>> No.17229168

>>17229057
The "Saxons" really does seem to have been a movement of Scandinavian expansion before the Vikings. Beowulf seems to have fairly decent knowledge about the events of Scandinavia in it's time, very similar grave relics have been found (Sutton Hoo and Vendel helmets).

>> No.17229180

>>17229164
Nordic languages are north germanic.

>> No.17229195

>>17229180
ok, cool. It's Norse paganism. Stop trying to appropriate it. You fucing Germans and angloniggers were getting fucked by Caesar's fat cock while us nords were maintaining our culture

>> No.17229237

>>17228148
Grendel was probably a mongoloid with retard strength

>> No.17230625

>>17229237
Lol based

>> No.17230654

>>17229195
yah ,because you had a sea and a meat grinder of germans between you and them.

>> No.17231866

>>17228148
He was a Crispin Glover

>> No.17232438

>>17229164
LOL the Brits BTFO'd Caesar and his puny expedition.
It wasn't until Claudius' reign that the Romans got a foothold in Britain.

>> No.17232458

>>17232438
jej, no they didnt. ceaser won every major battle on the island than left when he didnt have enough resources. his withdrawl had everything to do with ceaser fighting an ocean and a full semi pacified gaul away and nothing really really with the britons.

>> No.17233186

>>17229164
Ah yes, in the same way that scandinavian languages aren't germanic languages.

>> No.17233194

>>17229164
Norse paganism is one branch of Germanic paganism... There is a plenty of linguistic evidence that shows that the Anglo-Saxon gods have the same names as the Norse gods.

>> No.17233234

>>17229164
You aren't Nordic, Caesar never fought against the Anglo-Saxons, stop LARPing.

>>17229168
At the time Beowulf would have taken place the Germanic world would have been FAR closer knit than it is today. This meme about how Germany and Sweden are super different today therefore these people speaking languages only a few centuries removed from speaking literally the same language must have been completely unaware of each other is just that: a meme spouted by people who watch too much TV.

Having said that, Beowulf is Christian at a time when Christianity didn't exist in Denmark, and a number of events are patently just the author putting a Christian veneer on pagan elements (the Skald telling peasants stories from Genesis, which is a huge lmfao).

>> No.17233291

>>17228148
Through the years he's been desrcribed as a water spirit, an eveil goblin, a Jute, defeated coastmen who had to resort to inland, malaria, a legend of oriental origin, a symbol for the cultivation of marshland, and a bear.

>> No.17233308

>>17228148
No he was a relic population of Neanderthal

>>17228182
for a scandi prince

>> No.17233335

>>17233291
and also pirate raids.

>> No.17233368
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>>17228148
Grendel was the son of an some pre-biblical monster and Cain. He represents the last remains of paganism in an increasingly Judeo-Christian world.
We're never going to get a good Beowulf movie are we bros?

>> No.17233980

>>17228153
>Some anglo cuck who fapped to vikangz raping bong women
>peak anglo lit
right

>> No.17234296

Anybody read the book by John Gardner?

>> No.17234376

>>17229164
It's an Anglo Saxon poem mate.

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>>17233368
>He represents the last remains of paganism in an increasingly Judeo-Christian world.
That's way too reductive my man.

>We're never going to get a good Beowulf movie are we bros?
Implying.

>> No.17234413

>>17229164
Learn history, retard. Anglo-saxons invaded Britain when the Roman empire was collapsing.