Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Monday Post for Monday, September 14

The "Dream of the Rood" and "The Wanderer" have pretty obvious Christian allusions in them.  Beowulf, less so.  In fact, there are some scholars who think that the Christian references (mostly Old Testament) were added by a later scribe.  Choose 1 Christian or biblical allusion from the last half of Beowulf (after line 836) and compare/contrast it with the pattern of Christian/biblical allusions found in EITHER "The Wanderer" or "Dream of the Rood."  What conclusion (if any) can you make about the type of Christianity found in the poem Beowulf?

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