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Postby Lord Chrusher » 12 Sep 2007, 20:08

Scottish? What does Beowulf have to do with Scotland? Is not Beowulf set in Denmark?
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Postby tak197 » 12 Sep 2007, 20:13

Lord Chrusher wrote:Scottish? What does Beowulf have to do with Scotland? Is not Beowulf set in Denmark?


No, that's Hamlet. MacBeth and Beowulf I am pretty sure were scottish.

Mind you this is out of the mouth of the lucky bastard who WASN'T assigned beowulf as part of Lit. class.
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Postby Alja-Markir » 12 Sep 2007, 21:37

Beowulf is not Shakespearean, Scottish, or Danish.

It is a classical Anglo-Saxon text. The author is unknown. The character Beowulf himself is a Geat, inhabiting Götaland, which is in modern Sweden. It is the story of his trials against the monster Grendel, Grendel's hag-like mother , and a Dragon.

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Postby emma » 13 Sep 2007, 05:29

tak197 wrote:No, that's Hamlet. MacBeth and Beowulf I am pretty sure were scottish.


GUHHHH No one knows who wrote Beowulf, and it was written like 600 years before Shakespeare!!
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Postby tak197 » 13 Sep 2007, 11:45

Ok, I DIDN'T SAY Beowulf was written by shakespeare. I said that I thought MacBeth AND Beowulf were Scottish.

Thank you, Alja. Now I know more about a book I never read.
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