ENGL 2001 Lecture 1: Engl 2001 Notes
4 Apr 2016
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Bede writing about the conversion of england to christianity: writing with joy, possibly exaggerating a fair bit - but he is the only writer, so can"t really say the truth of what passed. 33-48 and lxv-lxxi - for more help understanding, in the intro. Toolbox: wyrd (weard) - about the equivalent of fate in old english, can be personified. Cambridge is, though this is not near sutton hoo, which is near mouth of the. Edith may pretty engaged services of basil brown to excavate the mounds on her property in 1800s ----do not need to remember their names------ Basil brown found a ship burial underneath the mounds he excavated in. Are there, or should there be variations in tone? hopeless, depressed, o. Is there a mental geography in the wanderer that corresponds to the physical geography? (ie phrases like middle-earth) Middle earth being in the middle between heaven and hell (in christianity at least)
