ENGLISH 164A: Old English 2: Beowulf (ENGLISH 264A)

Course Description

In this class, students will read the entirety of the Old English poem Beowulf in its original language. In class we will work through our translations and discuss, among other things, the poem's poetic style and accomplishment, its fusion of Christian and Germanic pagan elements, its place in the broader tradition of early medieval Germanic literature, and the manuscript it appears in.