BEOWULF - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Here you can find a very detailed analysis of this Anglo-Saxon epic poem. Click here to download a PDF presentation to revise it.

THE ORIGINS AND THE MIDDLE AGES

FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE MIDDLE AGES

ANCIENT  BRITAIN

THE MIDDLE AGES

BEOWULF

CHAUCER

REVISING BEOWULF - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Here you can find my previous post about Beowulf, the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. More than 3,000 lines long, Beowulf relates the exploits of its hero, and his successive battles with a monster named Grendel, with Grendel’s revengeful mother, and with a dragon which was guarding a hoard of treasure. 
Here you can download a PDF presentation.

It is to be noted that there are many similarities between J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Beowulf.  

Tolkien uses many concepts found in Beowulf.  In fact, he was a professor of Anglo-Saxon, and an expert on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem. Read here.