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Plot Character Genre
Meter Alliteration Foot
Iamb Trochee Anapest
Dactyl Monometer (etc.) Scansion
Apposition Cubism Symbol
Comitatus Thane Bede
Hild Caedmon Alfred
Geats Swedes East Anglia
Raedwald Thor Ragnarrök
Marduk Krishna Cain
Angles Saxons Jutes
Exeter Book Vitellius A.xv Cotton
manuscript vellum script form
Vortigern Rome Vikings

 

Issues for Consideration:

1. Parallelism in Beowulf

2. Major themes in OE poetry and specific illustrations

3. Pagan/Christian coloring of Beowulf

4. Kingship in Beowulf

5. Appositive style and aesthetic experience