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280 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: Beowulf

The Symbolic World

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The Story of Beowulf - The Song of the Shope

In Beowulf, there are three monsters and a fourth monster called grandal. Grandal is somewhere between a demon and a man; he's the good monster in the story. The poem uses the same language to refer to grandal on one page, and then you turn a couple of pages,. And now that same monster language is being used to talk about the Beowulf character. There's lots of really interesting stuff like this. I think there's every reason to believe that the author had access to the book of Enoch or just a kind ofAccess to this homiletic tradition based on Enochian and apocryphal literature was really common in England during the Middle Ages

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