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Old English

Visiting Scholars

Video | Making Connections: Exploring Beowulf, with Graeme Bird

We were pleased to welcome Graeme Bird (Gordon College) who joined us for a discussion exploring the Old English poem Beowulf, which is also our next Book Club selection. Mentioned in the discussion: Focus passages that were featured in the discussion (updated with line numbers for those using different editions), the first 11 lines in Old English. Read more

Topic for Discussion

Composition-in-Performance and Micronarrative

Some of us have been reading the Old English poem Beowulf together, using the same slow reading techniques and discussions that we have been used to for the Greek texts. Recently we were looking at a passage in which a poet tells a story, and of course it brought to mind the bards and micro-narratives within Homeric epic. Read more