History of Beowulf

Manuscript, connections to Christianity, rise of importance to British Lit.

[@MasulloEnglish]

Very informative. Startlingly original and meticulously researched. I hope to do work this good someday.

[@nahte-]

this girl sounds just like my english teacher

[@weedtech85]

Thanks for the upload...

[@mh605]

FYI, the British TV show, The Detectorists, at one point deals with a buried ship (such as you describe above) that the detectorists are trying to find.

[@usquanigo]

Berry the king? Strawberries, or blueberries?

[@LOCKEYJ]

Beowulf is a literate poem there is little evidence for oral composition and it is not a prechristian story with Christian insertions, it’s inherently Christian in its composition but remembering a pagan history with melancholy. Also ‘Britainnia’ is an anachronism.

[@jaimegutier273]

That's utter nonsense since Beowulf is obviously a pagan composition and this is easily noted by just noticing the lack of Judeo-Christian teachings on the poem. Beowulf didn't wait for Yahweh's permission to kill the dragon out of revenge, which according to Judeo-Christian teachings it's highly sinful. Anything that doesn't belong to the Jewish folklore isn't Judeo-Christian, as simple as that. Christians trying to judaize pagan works is something as old as the New Testament.

[@KavorkaCurse]

It’s called “Scop” -skop

[@JoelAdamson]

She's pronouncing it correctly. In Old English "sc" = the "sh" of modern English. "Scip" = "ship"

[@MrSnoopyxxx12]

8/8 m8 - NewYork Times

[@JoelAdamson]

Conversion to Christianity was quite rapid in Northern Europe, at least in Britain and Frankia, Frisia and Flanders. Some pagan traditions persisted in Britain but "paganism" did not coexist with Christianity for any more than 100 years. Yes Tolkien was a big factor, but scholars in England and on the continent had been seriously studying Beowulf since 1830. It is NOT a pagan poem. Read it. It's heavily Christian. The writer is clearly describing pagan ways as archaic and harmful. Jesus and the Christian God are referenced every twenty lines or so. The concensus among scholars is that the poem was written, literally written, in the late 700s and copied with additions up to the manuscript that we have. There is no evidence that this was a campfire story. It's very likely it was something for scholars.

[@cristianmolina6889]

3:10 Monk Constantine lol I imagine him in a mid church shootout .

[@-Redemption-]

Telephone? Oh, you mean Chinese whispers

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

The vikings appeared later

[@albanfisher6857]

Those damn England Saxons

[@sarahumlaut]

Are you Mila Kunis???

[@fabs9423]

I thought the exact same thing!! lol

[@Hunter_9764]

Lmao

[@raul76603]

What I want to know is if this was real

[@nahte-]

probably not, as it’s stated in the video, it’s just a story that was told for entertainment by the Scops and passed down from generation to generation.

[@chrissibersky4617]

Places and names and a lot of historic references in the story are facts. But it will be very hard to prove that trolls attacked Roskilde or even the existence of a dragon.

[@bobbarker142]

U kinda sound like mila kunas

[@veronicalogotheti5416]

Germanic is not viking

[@kambreebowen2762]

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