ENGL 177- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 40 pages long!)
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Secular topic - christian spin because of the scribes who wrote the story down. English manuscript from the year 1000 but also historical. 1563 lawrence nowell had beowulf manuscript first --> writes name. Sigmund (good king) and heremod (bad king) (910) Hrothgar mentions beowulf"s mother for the first and only time (949) Hrothgar gives gifts to people to be a good king. Gifts are meant to last --> lasting bond (1020-1060) Gives saddle to beowulf (not to one of his own sons) Hrothgar tells of how he rode the saddle when in battle, killing a bunch of people. Gifts don"t work to make a bond between finns and danes. Future of necklace: goes on a raide with hygelac and ends up with the enemies when hygelac falls. Christianity - what really endures is god"s will, not treasure. Poem is similar to an interlace belt buckle. Intertext is not an interruption - is vital to the story.
