This is a recording of the third session of our Beowulf Book Club. Very nice to see everyone there!
This time, we covered:
The convoluted Finnsburg episode
The astute political manoeuvring of Wealththeow and the future strife amongst the Danes
All about Grendel’s mother
The heroic ethos that undergirds the poem’s values, and its tension with the ostensibly Christian worldview of the poet.
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