NAVIGATION: Index of Dr. Weller's Class Material

Index of Beowulf Materials

Beowulf : Text and Translation

Outline, keyed to the translation by Seamus Heaney.

Background Lecture Notes

How Beowulf was composed.

The Verse of Beowulf

The approach of Grendel in Old English.

Fun Fatalism Survey

Passages Illustrating Fatalism in Beowulf.

Boasts in Beowulf.

Women in Beowulf.

Failure of the Warrior Code

For Humanities 211:

Discussion of Differences between Beowulf and "Thorstein the Staff-Struck"

Model Essay Test Answer