Othering / Monstrous Collection

Question 1

P1 (5 quotes, 2 context/critics)

Answer 1

Spatial othering

Maldon is a town near Colchester, Essex. 12 miles north of the Thames inlet. On the bank of the river Blackwater & situated in Salt Marshes. Battle took place between 10-11 August 991

Battle of Maldon:
“Bricge” / “bridge” acting to separate the two sides

Beowulf:
“Now you, sea traveller from a far off land”
“Nu ge feorbuend, mereliðende minne gehyrað”

Heorot:
“The timbered Hall, splendid and gold adorned”
“Geatolic ond goldfah, ongyton mihton”

Vs

“Fen ond fæsten”
“Fen and moors”

Halverson: Heorot presents a “true space”, “where the king resides”, the “centre of society and a functioning economy”

Question 2

P2 (6) quotes

Answer 2

Monstrosity vs Heroism:

Maldon:
“Brad and brunnecg” - “Broad and bright edged” (sword)
“hicgan to handum and to hige godum” - “Pay hands and heed to heroic thought”

Beowulf:
“Wonsaeli wer, weardonde hwilst” - “For a long time lived in the land of monsters”

“nihtweorce gefeh” - “rejoiced at his nightwork”

Wonders of the East:
“Ungefraegelicu deor” - “Unheard of beasts”
“Ungefraegelicu liblac” - “unheard of witchcraft”

Question 3

P3 (3 quotes, 1 critic)

Answer 3

Christianity vs Hell

Rosemary Woolf: “Born again Germanic revival in Maldon stemming from Christian fidelity”

Beowulf:
“feond on helle” - “Fiend from hell”
“Haeled under heofenum” - “heroes under heaven”

Maldon:
“Da hine heowon haedenne scealcas” - “Then the heaten savages hacked him up”