Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013: Lurking Dragons

* Open
* Beowulf
  • Thane: (in Anglo-Saxon England) a man who held land granted by the king or by a military nobleman, ranking between an ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble.
  • Scop: an Old English poet, the Anglo-Saxon counterpart of the Old Norse skald.
  • Old English alliterative verse
    • Accentual (rather than syllabic)
      • Each stich (pronounced 'stik'), or line, is divided into two parts by a caesura (or pause)
    • Germanic
  • Questions Reviewed  

HW: Study your Binder Notes for a Quiz on Block Day
 
"As Jupiter could be hidden from all-devouring Time, as the Christ Child could be hidden from Herod—so the child unborn is still hidden from the omniscient oppressor. He who lives not yet, he and he alone is left; and they seek his life to take it away."

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