Beowulf??????

JoshInRI

I cannot imagine why Beowulf is being given away in Logos this month.

Does anyone else find this pretty odd.  I barely got through it in high school!

Milford Charles Murray

JoshInRI said:

I cannot imagine why Beowulf is being given away in Logos this month.

Does anyone else find this pretty odd.  I barely got through it in high school!

Peace to you JoshinRI!            *smile*                         I think it's part of Logos gearing up for their Noet.com        http://noet.com/         ...........          Beowulf has actually been free every month as part of the larger Perseus Collection.  For some reason -- again I would think Noet.com -- they now have made it free as an individual book....

DMB

Maybe Bewulf-ers want to double their Beowulfian pleasure: logosres:garnettbeowulfeng;art=title (Perseus)

EDIT: And then, maybe not!

Butters

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/526735#Comment_526735

Me likes very very much!  

~Butters [:)]

Butters

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/526738#Comment_526738

Butters said:

Me likes very very much!  

~Butters 

Sorry to disappoint you Butters but while "free"[G], it's also a translation. [W]

~The Staff

TCBlack

Beowulf  has been free and separate ever since Perseus was released. 

As [one of?] the oldest extant complete anglo-saxon poetic epics. Its value lies in its antiquity, as well as in its ancient syncretic pagan and Christian symbolism (battling demonic creatures, etc). 

Regardless of its spiritual utility, it is a great story giving a sideways glimpse into the thoughts, values, and culture of ancient teutonic people exposed to Christianity and wrestling with pagan remnants. In that sense it is very contemporary.

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/526761#Comment_526761

If you'd like another glimpse at ancient Christian poetry, google up the "dream of the rood"

Or just start here: Dream of the Rood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Milford Charles Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/526762#Comment_526762

TCBlack said:

If you'd like another glimpse at ancient Christian poetry, google up the "dream of the rood"

Or just start here: Dream of the Rood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Thanks, Thomas!        *smile*           Peace!                         Haven't heard of that for years and have never read it ....

                  I wonder if noet.com will have some options in areas like this....                  OR, I guess I could do a PB; but time has been short lately, eh???

Edit:      FWIW - Here's a lovely translation:   http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Dream_Rood_Kennedy.pdf

 

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/526764#Comment_526764

I looked at doing a PB but can't find a text that will let me use it without getting a permission letter. I could do that of course... If I had enough inclination. 

Still I like some of the ancient works.

The Dream of the rood pictures Jesus quite differently than a victim of the cross. Instead it portrays him as a germanic warrior king embracing his death for glory. 

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/526769#Comment_526769

TCBlack said:

The Dream of the rood pictures Jesus quite differently than a victim of the cross. Instead it portrays him as a germanic warrior king embracing his death for glory. 

Ironically, from a prophetic standpoint, that is much more accurate than the standard (dare I say "orthodox") depiction. He's not a victim so much as bait.

Mike Childs

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/526761#Comment_526761

TC, Thanks for your literate contribution to this discussion.  Always great to hear from a gentleman and a scholar.  And I appreciate the other poem that you mention in your next post, "The Dream of the rood".