File:Study Guide for Beowulf

Everything I wish I'd known about Beowulf! TIMED LINKS: The Setting: https://youtu.be/P9boRMeEWCg?t=65 Historical Context: https://youtu.be/P9boRMeEWCg?t=104 Nowell Codex: The Only Surviving Manuscript: https://youtu.be/P9boRMeEWCg?t=245 JRR Tolkien's Influence on Beowulf: https://youtu.be/P9boRMeEWCg?t=367 Technical Craft of Poem: https://youtu.be/P9boRMeEWCg?t=565 Summary: https://youtu.be/P9boRMeEWCg?t=640

RESOURCES: Pronunciation guide http://drmarkwomack.com/pdfs/beowulf-pronunciation-guide.pdf University of Chicago on the history of the Beowulf manuscript http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/britannia/anglo-saxon/beowulf/vitellius.html JRR Tolkein’s Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics: http://producer.csi.edu/cdraney/2011/278/resources/Tolkien%20-%20The%20Monsters%20and%20the%20Critics.pdf Dr. Tom Shippey on JRR Tolkein’s Beowulf Lecture 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPBt05KUfzg Lecture 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x98UBKDfl0E&t=1886s

Beowulf! The tale of the baddest Geat to ever Geat. Tolkien said that the Dragon in Beowulf is one of only two *true* dragons in all of literature - the other being Fafnir. The influence of both these dragons is very visible in a lot of our more modern fantasy: for instance, where Beowulf's Dragon inspired Smaug, o chiefest and greatest of calamities, Fafnir inspired C. S. Lewis to include that cursed bracelet thing that turned Eustace into a dragon in Voyage of the Dawn Treader. And I think we all know the badder of those two dragons, so I guess Tolkien - and, by extension, Beowulf - wins this round. WHERE AM I? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BrittanyReads/ Twitter https://twitter.com/BrittanygReads Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brittany.reads Blog http://brittthereader.blogspot.com/