Themes All Themes. Symbols All Symbols. Theme Wheel. Everything you need for every book you read. The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. The mead-hall is the symbol of a society: it is in this central place that the people gather to feast, socialize, and listen to the scop bard perform and thereby preserve the history of the people.
Heorot, as the largest mead-hall in the world, symbolized the might and power of the Spear-Danes under Hrothgar. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Hrothgar is successful in battle, and gains followers and treasure. He constructs Heorot , the most magnificent mead-hall ever built, and a good place to feast, listen to the However, the narrator mentions that in the future Heorot will burn because of a feud between son-in-law and father-in-law.
Grendel Attacks Lines 86— The Danes celebrate the completion of Heorot with a feast, at which Hrothgar's bard sings about the creation of the Earth. That night, Grendel visits Heorot as the Danes are sleeping. Grendel seizes thirty warriors and carries them to his den Beowulf Arrives Lines — At Heorot , Hrothgar's herald, Wulfgar, asks the Geats who they are. Beowulf identifies himself by name as Beowulf greets Hrothgar, and says he has heard that because of Grendel, Heorot stands empty and useless after nightfall.
Beowulf boasts of the great deeds of his past, A Feast at Heorot Lines — The Geats and Danes feast in Heorot. But Unferth, the son of Ecglaf, jealously taunts Beowulf. According to Unferth, as young men Beowulf says that Grendel would never have overcome Heorot if Unferth were as brave as he claims to be.
Beowulf vs. Grendel Lines — Grendel approaches Heorot and tears open the doors. He grabs a sleeping Geat, Hondscioh, and eats him quickly Grendel's fierce cries and the sounds of their epic struggle wake the warriors.
Heorot shakes with the force of their fight. The men grab their weapons to help, not Beowulf mounts Grendel's arm as a trophy on the wall of Heorot. Beowulf, the narrator says, has fulfilled his boasts. Celebration Lines — In the morning, the Danes celebrate Beowulf's victory in Heorot.
New York: Anchor Books, Greenfield, Stanley B.. New York, W. Norton and Co. Tripp, Raymond P. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, Popular Imagery in the Old English Poem Beowulf Some popular elements of imagery in Beowulf are the mead-hall, the sea, swords, armor including shields. Let us discuss these items and, where applicable, the archaeological support for them. Lincoln, Nebraska: Uiversity of Nebraska Press, Leavis, Q. Frank, Roberta. Tolkien, J. Williams, Stanley T.
New York: Fawcett Premier, Lewis, R. Cramp, Rosemary. Bloom, Harold. Chickering, Howell D.. Beowulf A dual-Language Edition.
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