ENGL 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: King Horn, Bildungsroman, Net.
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Horn grows up physically, but also moral and a procession as a rightful ruler. Uses the common motif of exile and return to build up that growth. -repetition and parallels are there so one can see that growth as well. Murray the king and his wife godhild give birth to horn. One day pagans come and take over his father"s land due to their belief in christianity. Horn and some 15 of his friends are put on a ship to be left for dead but end up being dragged into the land of king almair, father of the beautiful rimenheld. Horn is trained by althelbruce, as assigned by the king. Rimenhild falls in love with horn and plans to declare her love for him by faking being ill and sending for him. Her plan fails when horn sends his brother in his place.
