ENG 2105 Lecture Notes - Sigmund, Heremod
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Consistently described as having ill-boding patterns with keen, inlaid, worm-looped- patterned steel (1532) The sword that beowulf finds in the treasury of grendel"s home was said to have been engraved with scenes of creation. Beowulf takes it back and gives it to hrothgar as a sign of respect. The worm-looped steel was a result of how the sword is produced in a blacksmith"s shop damascene. As a style it produces this effect through the looping and hammering of steel rods. Beowulf presents itself as a story of heroic conflict fo human world and an elemental, monstrous enemy who haunts and hunts human life from outside of all the forms of articulation that characterizes the human ideal. 958-959 a fight dared against the unknown) The story is consisted of 3 segments (3 successful battles of beowulf against monsters) Mapped onto beowulf"s life, and even when events from. Beowulf"s past are brought forward into the sequence in a way that makes sense.
