Beowulf Dialectical Journal ln 850-1320

ln 945-949
"so now, Beowulf, I adopt you...no worldly goods than won't be yours."
Greatest Honor. Adoption is the opposite of Banishment. connection for 2 countries. Why would he do this.... is it just to honor or to have an extremely strong "heir"?

ln 1018
"The Sheilding Nation was not yet familiar with feud and betrayal."
What does he mean? Unferth betrayed when he killed his brother. They were in a feud with the Franks according to the poem.

ln 1075-1078
"When morning came...on murdered dears."
Parralelism to the morning in Hereot after Grendel attacks. Sad tone. Draws a connection between the sadness of the ladies of Hereot and those of the tale that the bard is singing.

ln 1096-1107
"Finn swore... A funeral pyre"
Why is he honoring the enemy with a pyre in a pagan world? Theme: Good King, makes peace with the enemy and tries to resolve a feud. Why not just crush the leaderless enemy and resolve it that way. Is pitty honorable?

ln 1116-1118
"Son's body... to sputter....besides his uncle's."
Why burned with kin? Theme: Kin and Honor. Is it honorable to be layed to rest with older and more experience warriors?

ln 1152-1153
"Finn was cut down, the queen brought away"
Foreshadow to Hrothgar and or Beowulfs deaths? Why would they take the queen. Theme: Trophy? Role of women

ln 1205-1207
"Fate swept him away...a feud with the Frisians."
Wyrd. Don't prevoke the Frisians.... foreshadow to the Swedes destroying the geats. Theme: Feud and Blood Money as well as Fate.

ln 1299-1306
"Beowulf was elsewhere...both parties having to pay."
Why did she take his arm and not revenge? Symbolism. The arm symbolized victory and she took it. She could have killed everyone because Beowulf wasn't there to kill her. They both loose. She lost her son and a chance at revenge, the danes lost their trophy and one of their best men.