This is a recording of the fifth session of our Beowulf Book Club.
This time, we covered:
The “Ingeld episode” and Beowulf’s uncannily accurate prophecies
The folkloric motif of Beowulf’s unpromising youth
The death of Hygelac and the historical setting of Beowulf
The parallels between the Baldr myth and the story of Herebeald’s slaying
The Geatish-Swedish w…
