Study Guide for Beowulf

[@ChristiWarner]

Thank you! I was able to help my child for her Essay preparation! So helpful!

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[@Sassysboy]

As a private tutor in advanced English Literature, I find this video excellent - well organized, clear, interesting, and informative. Thank you.

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[@tails0389]

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[@jaidaa05]

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[@LatinLector]

I just recently studied Beowulf in my British Literature class!! It was nice to see where more modern authors took their inspirations from.

[@gordonbones9727]

Learned more in 10 minutes about Beowulf here than in hours in college. Thanks.

[@owellwsrd]

I've been working on a research project about monster hunters and slayers in ancient folklore for a few weeks and I was a bit overwhelmed when I was driving into Beowulf. Then I found this video, you are a freaking godsend! I've used your video and linked resources to go about my research and writing, using this video as a kind of structural source... Long story short, thank you! This video helped me greatly!

[@rebeccagoodman8858]

Beautifully summarized! I plan to show my students this video before they begin this part of their literature lessons. Thank you!

[@brendahkamundi9230]

I return to this video frequently to refresh my touch with old English

[@JohnXMilton]

Really Solid Review! Especially appreciated the historical context at the beginning; while still viewing as a story as described by Tolkien.

[@paulbigham4199]

Excellent review, and the soft, casual style was perfect and avoided the stiff, stilted review of Beowulf that most Brit Lit teachers cop out on. Personality is a plus for a dreadful to read, wonderful to understand epic poem and Hero's Journey line. Well done. Also deeply enjoy David Whyte's analysis to the modern-day corporate world.

[@mariacarmelarizzo1736]

You were absolutely wonderful in explaining this poem...thank you

[@feedjaesix3116]

i learned more from this 20 minute video than I did all semester from my professor

[@stephieeeeeee]

same here. my English prof just handed this poem and asked us to read without any explanation. Then in the class she showed us a movie to compare how the poem and movie are different ... lol I mean I can do that in my home by myself ... I was about to ask why I paid thousands to take this course..

[@simplynarelyn3378]

I'm literally cramming for my exam tonight and this helped so much. English is really hard for me and the translation of beowulf really sucks. English 4 is the worst lol

[@Jack-hs1nv]

Thanks so much, have a test tomorrow and this review really helps

[@maddyt6515]

This was super comprehensive and absolutely helped me, thank you endlessly! The same thing is happening in my class currently, we were given Beowulf with no other offered information and told to write and test on it.

[@saymonsantanadesousalima643]

what a amazing job that you did in this video

[@Ivanowich]

I love this... I have never before heard about the end of the poem... I thank you... I need to study much more before I can succede my objective of "taking back Beowulf" to Denmark

[@marjagroeneveld9147]

Absolutely loved the way you told this story! Im currently being taught on the anglo-saxon period and you made this incredibly fun to listen to :)

[@stardust5379]

Apart from Tolkien's own translation of Beowulf, he had 17 other translations. There is a fantastic video on youtube about Tolkien:Maker of Middle Earth. Mainly Christopher Tolkien talking about his father's works.

[@TheSvartulfr]

Well done. I'm happy you gave a thorough telling of the greatest story in Anglo-Saxon literature.

[@preachyourlife2859]

You did an excellent job in your presentation, it was clear, informative, and entertaining.

[@catalinahonsowetz3009]

I found your video to be fantastic! Very well organized and with enough information that it made me want to learn more! The polite way in which you communicate your information made it a pleasure to listen and learn. Thank you very much!

[@kerrinskinner8370]

this just saved my grade. the summary was so detailed thank you so muchhhhhhh everybody else just said he fought three monsters

[@amourmariaaa]

beautiful study guide, thank you !

[@Kalificus]

Thank you for going in depth. The other two top results were very brief, hardly even summaries.

[@nezumi6554]

Thank you, this helped me gain a greater understanding and context of the story before I dive in.

[@jokerswildio]

I hope you are a teacher, because I learned more from this 10 minute video than I did from a semester of my high school Lit class. The problem is that many teachers don't really do a significant breakdown and historical context of the works. Many just say "read this and you will be quizzed" like you said. Some will do class readings and group work, but had we known how it ties into history, Christianity etc...this wouldn't go over our heads. I think the movie help popularize this classic somewhat but is disappointing that they didn't stay true to the text. Instead, they made the woman of Grendel's mom seem like the emperor in Star Wars. Lol...as the main antagonist no man can resist. Fascinating in its own right but I feel kinda cheated out too. I digres...lol. Anyways nice job here. I subscribed because of this video and am looking forward for more. Reading classics has now turned into a personal passion.

[@Betül-r2d]

Thank you.This was very helpful for my studies.🌷Also,It was really intesting to see where Tolkien got the inspiration

[@ava130]

Thank you! I’m reading this in high school and I think that knowing the history of it makes it a lot more interesting to read!

[@almaperez1125]

I love it!! Thank you, your video is very informative, organized and easy to understand.

[@juliolucas1347]

Thank you for such excellent explanation. I read the book same time ago and I re-reading it again for a radio show talk. Xo

[@danielamurtha6779]

This is a great video! Thank you!

[@donaldturner6402]

Informative and provided some great mental pictures from the story.

[@iandennislester6254]

Excellent presentation. very informative. Loved it. Thankyou, keep going.

[@kristaadams8709]

This was so incredibly helpful thank you!!! It was right to point no fluff exactly what I needed!! 💫

[@vanillahearts62]

I love this poem! Great video!

[@JeremiBenquar1995]

Holy cow, this is wayy different from the movie. Thank you for the great story telling!

[@danhunt579]

Thanks Brittany. Great video.

[@sumiharu2091]

Really helpful for me after listening it was really easy for me to summarize it in my assignment

[@ivarhakuse8572]

An excellent presentation. I just want to say that weapons with names is actually not unusual, especially for Hindus. For example Shiva’s bow is called Pinaaka. Vishnu’s Disc is SuDarshana. Krishna’s conch is PunchJanya. These names are mentioned in the opening verses of the Bhagavad Gita and because of Hindu Culture surviving the onslaught of Christian cultural genocide, we know exactly what is is being referred to when the weapon is referred to only by name. E.g. Arjuna, in the opening lines of Gita states, Oh Krishna, the Gandiva slips from my hand! We know he is referring to his bow. Often these weapons have names because they have some divine origin and have been gifted by a divine being. Some of these weapons can also only be used once, after which they return to the deity who had gifted it. In the Mahabharata, Karna has been similarly gifted a weapon by Indira, king of heaven. He is forced to use it to save the army from total annihilation when he had planned upon using it upon a different person in a separate encounter. This class of weapon is usually only acquired after intense focus on the deity and subject to if the deity decides the person is capable of handling it or not. As this text is part of paganic old English, we also know that it therefore belongs to the Indo-European family of languages. This then becomes part of Indo-European, Aryan, culture and civilisation and will carry memories of that ancient past. Often we come across Irish people who claim that they were originally from India! This points to the idea that Europe was colonised in antiquity by Hindus from India. These nomads used the central Eurasian Steppes as pastureland for their cows, sheep goats etc and ended up forming colonies in Greece, Central Europe and towards the west and north Europe. Ireland’s ancient Gaelic name Eire, ie Aarya reflects this. The Hindu term for the entire continent is called Jambu Dweepa. Anyway, I hope you found this informative. We need to bare in mind that when the British arrived in India carrying Christianity as a political tool, they had to set their own narrative on history to justify their colonialism and basic looting the country of its wealth. So the Aryan invasion into India from Eurasian Steppes theory was concocted by them. This basically made native Indians as much invaders into India as they themselves were. It was merely an attempt to decriminalize their own actions. The christianisation of Pagan cultures did not end with what happened in Europe. Today, July 2023 we see Manipur in north east India ablaze due to Christianity causing conflict amongst ancient tribal communities. There are youtube uploads on jambudweepa/dwipa from Indian traditional narrative. Dr Kusumlata Kedia has done work on this. Also the Sattology channel is of interest in this regard.

[@solpietrafesa3077]

Loved it. Excellent presentation, easy to follow. Thanks!!!

[@bsend4]

I have a test today thanks for clutching up 🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@alexamatthews4430]

Thank you so much! This was so helpful.

[@annamariereyes6956]

My 8th grader chose Beowulf for her poetry/classic literature choice (mostly because our cat is named Grendel), and this video will help her so much. Thank you!

[@jasonfisher9126]

Thank you for this wonderful video. It has been the most helpful, thorough, and honestly entertaining video that I have seen on this book. Makes me more excited to be reading it for class :-)

[@krymsonuchiha14]

I'm studying it now for my brit lit class. I always had trouble with poems because I can never understand them well. This helped a little but I do still need to look at more videos.

[@LD-mr3vc]

Thank you you just helped me pass my exam 😌

[@windomearle2932]

I see compliments in the comments, but I was stopped dead by misspelling in the main image.

[@AztecStar]

Thank you for this, it was very informational!

[@NycolleZettermann]

This is SO good! Thank you!!

[@juli-fz7ep]

very articulate!

[@SevenNationArmy123]

Love this video in every way

[@cansu7777]

Thanks. You are the best🌸🌸

[@stardust5379]

We have the first Anglo-Saxon helmet found in England in the museum next to my university in Sheffield. I notice you have the Sutton Hoo one as your cover pic. That one is always associated with Beowulf. We also have an Anglo-Saxon poem about the Battle of Maldon in 991 CE.

[@Noviloh]

Thanks so much! This helped a lot with reviewing =)

[@marcosbonilla7411]

This was so helpful! Thank you very much Now ready for read it :D

[@ErlaPEARL]

Thank you soo much, it was a great video !

[@user-ez8go6us7n]

Thank you so much for this brilliant video, I've learned so much.

[@oneleftshoe21]

Thankyou, so good to have a helpful hand in interpreting. :-)

[@mariediblickova6425]

Thank you sooo much! This was just so helpful ❤️

[@ryancollins1183]

Awesome Study Guide!

[@CastleKingside]

Wow. Thank you for this awesome breakdown of the original story of Beowulf. I'm a huge fan of the movie with the cgi, but after hearing your story, and how you presented the information of the REAL story, it makes the movie seem disappointing by comparison. But yeah, my bad for that run on sentence. I just wanted to say thanks because now I can make a video about my own interpretation of this wonderful story of a HERO. I'll be sure to shout you out on my video. Peace.

[@shakespearaamina9117]

Your video is really helpful 🙂 Thank you ☺️

[@nataliegrace5077]

So helpful thank you!!!!

[@matttraceyspencer1148]

Thank you so much for this- definitely helped my teen currently reading Beowulf to get a good context for the poem.

[@noahaiden4572]

wow.. this is excellent. watching you in 2021 ^_^

[@profesionalgambler]

You are amazing!

[@sidartagautama9440]

Thank you, my dear.

[@赵萌-s8w]

hi, love your video. Which part of the poem do you like the best?

[@rameeshaakhtar4549]

Thank you for saving me.. I have my mid sem this Saturday and i had no clue about the poem

[@msparis5404]

Wow this is awesome, thanks very much!

[@morganelizalep]

thank you so much for the video!!

[@radhekrishnavrindavanam8077]

Thank you dear well explained

[@MarinaEfanova-s8q]

Thank you very much for your video, it helped me a great deal!

[@veronicalido4765]

Thank you so much, very useful!

[@miroslav_g]

Thank you.

[@arzuakgul389]

I study in Y5 this is helpfull for me to learn thx :)

[@arzuakgul389]

😊

[@ceren996]

Hello, can you help me with the afterlife topic in Beowulf?

[@hannahcronk7630]

sooooo helpful!!

[@ivyhallquist3159]

Grendel's mom: "I'm gonna keep the only weapon that can kill me within arm's reach of an enemy. It'll be fine."

[@yeilyizquierdo3054]

Thank you !!

[@hazlittburcio4136]

this is very helpful

[@KovsarSanaee]

It's awesome 👍

[@clAssIcAllymINdless]

Thank you!

[@orizuogechukwu9671]

It is helpful. ❤

[@404funnynotfound.]

thx! i have a test tomorrow

[@afterzanzibar]

I know this is a small pronunciation error, but I've always heard it spoken as the "Yeats", like "yay-ots." However, "Geets" always sounded much more cool to me.

[@Parsa.bakshi]

Great

[@cooperkendrick9265]

Very helpful

[@jacquelynprussing7371]

which movie do you show?

[@thomasfields7902]

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9) Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. (Psalms 51:1-4)

[@MixerRenegade95]

Nu Her Fields hwaet dast daet haf to do mid Beowulf?

[@clintonstahlman4618]

Nice!

[@adjacentbrown12]

You are awesome

[@javaidghafoor9272]

U got an awesome accent

[@phonotical]

Why you stop making videos? 😟

[@ivyhallquist3159]

J.R.R. Tolkien: "Hey, can I copy your homework?" Author(s) or Beowulf: "Sure. Just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious that you copied."

[@zicoeder9212]

Great way of summarizing the story, but wish you could give little more details for my upcoming test.

[@CatherineCampbell-i1p]

This is Tolkien gone MTV sponsored by Seventeen magazine

[@stardust5379]

We still have a Jutish presence in the South East of England. Around 200.

[@hutarosenpai5294]

Why did Beowulf decide to free the Danes from Grendel?

[@aarongatzemeyer1439]

Thanks for the great clip. Maybe Beowulf still relevant cuz Geats' ancestors still here..see my last name?