Monday, September 12, 2011

Beowulf: Dialectical Journal 17

(696-697)But the Lord was weaving a victory on His war-loom for the Weather-Geats”

Here the poet is uniting the Christian god with the loom of fate, on which men’s lives are woven: Pagan imagery. By taking these pagan images, while putting them in a Christian context the poet tries to compromise between the two religious perspectives and ideas.

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