Thursday, January 11, 2007

The Anglo-Saxons

1. The story Beowulf was interesting to me. I mean, the story told me some tales about Anglo- Saxons. And think story was so cool and new to me when i first read,Because Beowulf had so much power and pride. and that caught my eyes when i read it . The that got to me,was that the Celts culture are still strongly with Ireland.

What made me really like the story, when the Angles and Saxons attacked Germany. I didn't know that until i read the story. I mean just think about then and now, that was a long time ago and Germany is well known. That's very interesting to me. Then another that caught my eye. Was that Anglo-Saxons England was very unorganized.

That what made me think, of course they wasn't going to be organized.Because they didn't have any desk nor computers like the new generations.that's like 400 years ago. And that was a long time ago.

There was a king in each area. I mean different kings. I think that if there wasn't any king's in the area's, the area's would be screwed up.There was other features in the Anglo-Saxons religion the Thonor. They keep up with the Warriors graves and Treasure. I thought that was kinda cool to know, and put some thinking into what really happened in the story.

2. first, the Anglo-Saxons had attacked Germany. And wasn't very organized.
second, Christianity was on the rise in england, the old Anglo-Saxon religion was still strong.
third,The most important Anglo-Saxon god was odin, the god of death, poetry, and magic. Then there was a Anglo-saxon name for odin it was woden and this is where we get the name for wednesday. There was a different King for each area, and none of the laws nor customs were similar.This all changed when King Alfred of Wessex, or Alfred the great organized the defeat of attacking Danish pirates we know as Vikings. In Beowolf early history prologue, was telling about all of the kings in the history of the Danes.You have heard of the Danish Kings in the old days and how they were great warriors.

3.Beowulf, remines me of spiderman, because he like to save people, just like beowulf likes to do the same the thing.and he is different from him, because spider man had webs to save and capture mean people.and beowulf had tools to do the same.but beowulf, loved his kingdom, just like spider-man, loves his people. Beowulf, saved his people by killing grendle.Beowulf had fulfilled his promise to the Danes and all the distress they had endured,all the trouble and sorrow,had reached an end.
The fact was plain when Beowulf laid that arm and shoulder down, there altogether, Grendel's claw,under the vaulted roof.

4.well, from when i read the ending of beowulf.it was sad and interesting to me. because he dies after he kills the monster. i really dont know what was the cause of his death. but im guessing that he died because he put so much pride into what he was doing for his kingdom, and he just collapsed and died. Beowulf spoke,despite his wounds.He knew wellhe'd seen the lastof this world's joys,that he'd numberedhis last day.
or he was so excited in his mind that he finally killed the monster and just died. well it was sad either way it goes, because he was so loyale into what he was doing. And thats why his name is still wellknown until this day.The young man lookedon his beloved lord,wretchedly killed,lying on the ground.His killer, the terrible cave-dragon, also lay bereft of life, overwhelmed in destruction.The dragon no longercoiled round the hoard,but was taken by iron,hacked in battleby the hammer's creation

2 comments:

D a n a said...

You have a good START here, but you need to do a little more work. Look at questions 2-4. Each of these require direct evidence from Beowulf. That means you need to include lines from the story that support what you have said.

Please leave me another comment when you have made your adjustments.

d

D a n a said...

Much better.