Bewulf Journal pages 1-21

ln 34-50
"They stretched their beloved lord in his boat...well furbished with battle tackle... decked his body with offerings...bewailing him and mourning their loss."

This passage describes the burial ritual of Shiels Sheafson. Forshadow to the end of the sory and Beowulf's funeral pyre? Theme: he beginning and end of a man's life. The story of Bewulf is argued to be about the life of Beowulf, his beginning and end. All we see of Shield is the beginning and end of his life, and he is very similar to Beowulf in his characteristics. Paralellism.

ln 53-63
"Then it fell to Beow to keep the forts...and then his heir the great Halfdone...Heorogar, Hrothgar, the good Halga, and a daughter... a balm in bed to the battle-scarred swede."

Lineage. The history of he danish kings. Why go into such detail? Is it just to show a powerfull lineage? Historical facts? Interwoven stories? Nameless daughter is married to a swede. Shows the role of women. Why such detail when i doesn't involve the main character?

ln102-108
"Grendel was the name of this grim demon haunting the marches, marauding around the heath and desolating fens... Cain's clan, whom the creaor had outlawed and condemed as outcass. For the killing of Abel the Eernal Lord had exalted a price."

Grendel is from Cain's Clan. Cain couldn't be aided by man because of the mark god placed on him, so he lived in sorrow. Grendel can't be with any men because he is a monster, he lives in exile. PARALLELISM to Cain's story. Christianity becomes part of the story. Why does a monster introduce christianity?

ln154-156
"how he would never parley or make peace with any Dane nor stop his death-dealing nor pay the death price."

WYR-GILD!! Grendel is evil theirfor he refuses and is incapable of paying blood-money. however, like Cain he pays for his sin in other ways, like exile. Beowulf contrasts to Grendel's lack of honor with the honor that he shows when he goes to he dane's to pay off his father's debt to hrothgar by killing grendel. Why don't the dead men's families act?

ln 175-178
"Sometimes at pagan shrines hey vowed offerings to idols, swore oaths that the killer of souls might come to their aid and save the people."

Paganism and Chrisianity clash. why is it that when the author brings pagnism into the story the characters are in great distress? Is pagan more futile? Does grendel symbolize pagan influence?

ln 196-199 and ln 221-223
"There was no one else like him alive. in his day, he was the mightiest man on earth, high-born, and powerfull.
"those seafarers sighted land, sunlit cliffs, sheer crags, and looming head lands, the landfall they sought."

Appositives used to highten meaning. Why are they used to describe the biggest ideas? Is it just to highten one of the five senses, or do hey enhance symbols or themes as well?