
Beowulf
The Classical Mind
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The Link to Cain in Beowulf
Beowulf is about correcting generational wrong, but not just through mutual forgiveness. It's typically through making rights through a kind of retribution or restoration. That Cain after being exiled from humanity goes on to be the sort of progenitor of like a different race and this being like sort of the monstrous,. The, and so Cain is like the outside. And now his, his descendants live in this state of exile still.
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