Welcome to your webquest about Beowulf.
In this part of your literature course you are going to explore Beowulf, one of the most famous poems from the Anglo-Saxon period and the Anglo-Saxon era. You will get acquainted with the poem itself and get a glimpse of what life in Anglo-Saxon times was like.
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We are going to start this quest with a question: Are there still traces of the Anglo-Saxon culture and literature to be found in our own modern culture and in present day literature? You are not supposed to answer this question right away, but bear it in mind when you study the poem and the background we provide you with. We will come back to this question several times throughout this course and we are curious to hear what you think. Hopefully you will enjoy this quest and learn to appreciate Beowulf and his people as much as we do. |