ESSAY ON BEOWULF

Essay on Beowulf

Essay on Beowulf

This paper presents a critical analysis of Beowulf, a lengthy poem written by an anonymous poet. There is controversy about whether these elements are intrinsic or are interpolations by a tenth century monastic scribe. In any case, it does not much resemble the Christianity of the High Middle Ages or of the modern world. Frequently the poem seems a reflection on the traditional pagan value system from the moral point of view of the new, incompletely assimilated Christianity (Bjork, 1987).

The most obvious Christian reference is the designation of the monster Grendel and his mother ...