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The Voice and the Page
ENGL 147VP - Fall 2006, Carol Braun Pasternack
| Thu, 10/12
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Shaping the stories
Echoic structure:
- (650 scaduhelma gesceapu scrīðan cwoman Re. Grendel’s approach to hall)
- 702b Cōm on wanre niht / scrīðan sceadugenga Re. G’s approach
- 710 Ðā cōm of mōre under mishleoþum / Grendel gongan
- 720 Cōm þā tō recede rinc sīðian / drēamum bedæled
- 1279 Cōm þā to heorote, ðær Hring-Dene / geond þæt sæld swæfun. Re. Grendel’s mother entering Heorot
- 1338b ond nū ōþer cwōm / mihtig mānscaða, wolde hyre mæg wrecan. Hrothgar telling about Grendel’s mother’s attack.
- 1623 Cōm þā to landa lidmanna helm / swīðmod swymman Re. Beowulf returning to land after battle with Grendel’s mother
- 1644 Ða cōm in gan ealdor ðegna, dædcēne mon dōme gewurþad Re. Beowulf entering to greet Hrothgar, completing above section envelope-style.
- 2009 Ic þær ic furðum cwōm / to ðām hringsele Hrōðgār grētan Beowulf telling Higelac about his arrival at Heorot
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