Old English

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Making Connections: Exploring Beowulf, with Graeme Bird

We were pleased to welcome Graeme Bird (Gordon College) who joined us for a discussion exploring the Old English poem Beowulf, which is also our next Book Club selection. Handouts: Handout of focus passages that were featured in the discussion (updated with line numbers for those using different editions): Selection of focus passages for Beowulf-with line numbers (PDF) Handout of the first 11 lines in the original Old English: Beowulf… Read more

Topic for Discussion

Composition-in-Performance and Micronarrative

~ A guest post by Sarah Scott ~ As some of you know, Jack Vaughan and I have been reading the Old English poem Beowulf together, using the same slow reading techniques and discussions that we have been used to in HeroesX and Hour 25 [= Kosmos Society]. Recently we were looking at a passage in which a poet tells a story, and of course it brought to mind the… Read more