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The Sea in Beowulf and The Seafarer

 
      The characters in the Old English poem Beowulf certainly delighted in the seas. This essay seeks to compare their attitude toward the sea with that expressed in another Old English poem, The Seafarer.

 

In Beowulf there is one reference after another to the sea. When Scyld died, ?his people caried him to the sea, which was his last request,? where he drifted out into the beyond on a ?death ship.? In the Geat land Beowulf, a ?crafty sailor,? and his men ?shoved the well-braced ship out on the journey they?d dreamed of,? to rescue the Danes from Grendel. ?From far over the sea?s expanse,? the Geats came, ?brave men who come over the sea swells.? In his welcoming speech Hrothgar recalls that the hero?s father ?sought us Danes over the rolling waves,? and his warrior Unferth remembers that the hero ?struggled with Brecca [youthful companion] in the broad sea in a swimming contest ? risked his life in the deep water ? hugged the sea, gliding through the boiling waves ? toiled seven nights in the sea.? A Dane ?was tending to eve... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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