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>We don't even know the name of Beowulf's author

>> No.17449757
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>>17449649
probably Bjorn or Cnut

>> No.17449985

>>17449649
>implying it wasn't some scrawny incel called Beowulf

>> No.17449999

>>17449649
it was an unknown wandering bard who probably died after being mogged by a Viking raiding party, there's nothing special about Beowulf, just that it was the only surviving text

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>>17449649
>TFW the earliest known reference to the word that became my surname is in Beowulf.

>> No.17450156

his name was Anonymous, dumbass

>> No.17450176

>>17449999
>there's nothing special about Beowulf, just that it was the only surviving text
It survived because it exemplified the values of the time.

>> No.17450193

>>17449757
Cnut Bjornssen most likely

>> No.17450232

>>17449999
>nothing special about Beowulf
nothing special about your quads, which will be forgotten and washed away by the exploits of greater digits posted by superior anons.

>> No.17450269

>>17449999
>there's nothing special about Beowulf
Other than the fact that it was considered a treasure of such value that it HAD to be preserved from the Normans, who were going around eradicating Anglo-Saxon culture and forcing a massive cultural revolution upon their newly conquered subjects.

Beowulf was also so important to the Anglo-Saxons that he HAD to be Christianized. The very fact that Beowulf exists as it does demonstrates that it is very special.

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>>17449649
When we started to know the name of the authors of songs and stories did they begin to decline.
Writing them down just made it worse.

>> No.17450300

>>17449649
>he thinks it matters
ngmi

>> No.17450308

>>17449999
>there's nothing special about Beowulf, just that it was the only surviving text
I used to think this, but actually there's a fair amount of surviving Old English poems, and the more that I read the more I realized that Beowulf is unlike anything else that was being written at that time.

>> No.17450311

>>17449649
His name was Beowulf

>> No.17450328

>>17450308
Do you have a list of them, or a link to a resource on them.
I'm studying something else at the moment but I'd like to take a crack at Old English culture next year.

>> No.17450342

>>17450308
Makes me wanna finish the thing, I got like 1/3 or half way through and dropped out of distractedness. It wasn't bad, a bit repetitive though.

>> No.17450346

>>17450283
based

>> No.17450356

>>17449649
And ou suppose a blind dude called Homer is responsible for the Iliad and the Odyssey?

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>>17450328
I really love this book. But you can find most of the poems and riddles online with translations of varying quality. The hit poems are called: The Wanderer, Widsith, Deor, and the Dream of the Rood

>> No.17450414

>>17450370
Is it bilingual?
Does anyone know a bilingual translation of Old English literature?

>> No.17450423

>>17450370
Ty anon.
I've getting rather bored of the Greeks and would like to study a culture of my own.
The Odyssey and Archaic Greece is great and all, but it doesn't connect with me in the same way.
Started to look into kenning and other North Sea/ Germanic traditions.

>> No.17450549

>>17450414
Yes it is bilingual

>> No.17450757

>>17450549
Nice. Tks