"I believe that the phrase ‘obligatory reading’ is a contradiction in terms; reading should not be obligatory. Should we ever speak of ‘obligatory pleasure’? What for? Pleasure is not obligatory, pleasure is something we seek. Obligatory happiness! We seek happiness as well. For twenty years, I have been a professor of English Literature in the School of Philosophy and Letters at the Univer...
Class one to three centers around the Germanic epic poem Beowulf. 1 INTRO BACKGROUND http://www.linguatics.com/images/indoeuro02c.jpg p4 "Poetry comes before prose. It seems that man sings before he speaks... In India, the codices are written in verse.... (Germanic) poems were meant to be read or sung, accompanied by a harp" note how this is to similar Chinese poetry p5 "if we hear a rhyme in S...
And there were also reports about another Viking who sacked a city in Italy, erroneously thinking it was Rome, then he set it on fire to have the honor of being the first Norseman to set fire to Rome 还好是假的。。。
England was a marshy land. The Germans considered it to be a terrible, noxious place.the psychology of these people is revealed by the fact that they counted the years by the winters, and the days by the nights. The cold that prevailed in that land is what constantly shows up in these texts; always mentioned are the terrors of the snow, the hardships of winter. The arrival of spring was welcome...(1回应)
Here’s a fairly simple kenning: “the swan of the beer of the dead,” which, when we first see it, we don’t now how to interpret. So, if we break it down, we see that “beer of the dead” means blood, and “swan of the blood” means the bird of death, the raven, so we see that “swan of the beer of the dead” simply means “raven.” 。。。
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