In the essay, Why Read Beowulf by Robert F. Yeager, we learn that Beowulf is a historic epic about good luck and mystery. elicit enough, the evolution of Beowulf is in any case a mystery. Two marks wrote a hologram of Beowulf in the late 900s. However, the whereabouts of this manuscript is unknown. In 1583, Lawrence Nowell, Dean of Litchfield, have the manuscript and kept from destruction from Henry VIII. Unknowingly, the manuscript sink into the hands of Sir Robert Cotton and is now in the British subroutine library in London. Who wrote Beowulf? The author of Beowulf is unknown. We assume Beowulf began as an oral poesy passed on by generations. However, we dont know how the manuscript was written. Was it recited to a scribe as the scribe wrote it down? Or did the two aforesaid(prenominal) scribes write it from a nonher manuscript? And finally, the role of Christianity in Beowulf is also a mystery. Beowulf was recited and performed in time of great Christian influence. However, Beowulf is stage set in pagan times and the only Biblical references in Beowulf are to the Old Testament, and Christ is neer mentionedÂ.
The characters are not demonstrably Christian and are idol worshipping pagansÂ. However, Beowulf prays to a high powerÂ. Was Beowulf praying to a pagan idol in legal injury approved by Christians? Or was Beowulf a Christian Ur-hero, symbolically refulgent with Christian virtuesÂ. Although Beowulf is a mystery and we may never know why it is what it is, but it still serves a classroom classic and a connection to the past and evolution.
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