This is a recording of the second session of our Beowulf Book Club. Very nice to see some familiar faces and some new ones as well!
This time, we covered:
The flyting (trash talk) between Unferth and Beowulf
Beowulf’s boast (bēot), and the nature of boasts in heroic society
The fight with Grendel
The role of the Sigemund and Heremod digressions in establishing the moral universe of the poem
And plenty of other things along the way.
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