Really, who cares?

[Stiganator]

I was brushing up on my Beowulf lore before I see the movie and I ran across this Wiki entry.

I know there was a thread about being a dick about your major. This isn't so much directed at a major, but people in general.


from Wikipedia on Beowulf:

Jane Chance (Professor of English, Rice University) in her 1980 article "The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother" argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure (i.e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon) and the other, a three-part structure (this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel).[22] Chance stated that, "this view of the structure as two-part has generally prevailed since its inception in J. R. R. Tolkien's Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics in Proceedings of the British Academy 22 (1936)."[22] In contrast, she argued that the three-part structure has become "increasingly popular."[22]

Who cares if it is separated into 2 or 3 parts? Who are the people that care about this? Are they just really bored?

 

[Leros]

Literary nuts find this stuff interesting.

 

[ManBearPig]

heres a question, i dont ever recall reading ripper slasher tearer when i read the poem, but its plastered all over magazines and shit, was this ever actually in the poem?

 

[Reel]

Think of it like being the first to find the cow level in Diablo.

As a side note, remember that unless someone surprises me and is able to read the original writings in Old English (not thy, thee, or ye olde but something mostly incomprehensible to modern English unless studied) that you are reading someone's translation. Not only is it a translation but it is also a translation of what people told for entertainment and evolved with the storytellers until someone decided to write it down many centuries ago.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Kazaam
heres a question, i dont ever recall reading ripper slasher tearer when i read the poem, but its plastered all over magazines and shit, was this ever actually in the poem?

The poem is basically a three part cycle:

Everybody gets drunk
Someone gets eaten by a monster
Someone kills a monster
(repeat)

 

[TheShiz]

I'm sure there is plenty of crap you like to talk about that I don't give a shit about. get over yourself.

 

[Demo24]

Originally posted by: Kazaam
heres a question, i dont ever recall reading ripper slasher tearer when i read the poem, but its plastered all over magazines and shit, was this ever actually in the poem?

I don't remember it either but I asked a friend who read it in the same class as me and he said it was in there.

 

[Fritzo]

She needed something to write a thesis on for her PhD. People will pull anything for that.