280 - Richard Rohlin - Universal History: Beowulf
The Symbolic World
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The Beowulf Poem - The Danes Get Really Desperate
There is a very strange passage that refers to, you know, the Danes get really desperate. Christianity hasn't come to the north when this poem is set. The Beowulf poet knows perfectly well that this is happening in pre-Christian times. But what's really interesting is that he wants to present them as kind of virtuous pagans.
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