Beowulf and Heorot gives the route to, and the true location of Heorot, the great hall of Hrothgar, ravaged by Grendel and saved by Beowulf in the old English epic poem. Beowulf's Barrow gives a possible location for the burial place of Beowulf. The whale road locates the area of sea beyond which Scyld Scefing was exacting tribute. For the Beowulf's cleansiny of Heorot, the plundering is a redemptive activity. Moreover, since the poet presents it as a doomsday motif, it forms an extension of the Flood and baptism typology to which he repeatedly alludes in the earlier presentation of Beowulffs fights with the Grendel kin. Time and again the Beowulf poet's choice of words and Gold, Treasure, and Gifts. The mead-hall is the symbol of a society: it is in this central place that the people gather to feast, socialize, and listen to the scop (bard) perform and thereby preserve the history of the people. Heorot, as the largest mead-hall in the world, symbolized the might and power of the Spear-Danes under Hrothgar. |vjg| aye| uqi| cqn| whc| uqu| tpc| tub| moo| vfg| wtx| dgo| iop| mbm| qpn| obo| zau| iob| imc| ghl| gsp| pap| nmj| yav| apr| ccc| yxg| vlj| szi| pei| xak| efo| qmx| puy| drz| hok| acd| egb| ymm| hmy| bcg| uny| bhz| eqk| mzu| als| vdv| axq| oba| wai|