![]() ![]() There’s a lot less uncertainty here when I state that at the Academy Awards that year, Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary took home the Best Original Screenplay award for Pulp Fiction, which was easily the film of 1993, having won the Palme d’Or at Cannes the previous May. Let’s establish the more contemporary context, closer to the modern day: right around the beginning of 1995 or so. Thus were Scandinavians introduced to concepts such as original sin, the Incarnation, and the Trinity: such concepts must have proved unusual to the warrior-minded tribes and their notions of Valhalla and Ragnorok that favored those who expressed strength and died as warriors. At the time “Beowulf” was written, the Christianization of Scandinavia was possibly well underway, with Christian traditions supplanting Norse. Tolkien to promote the creative value of the poem rather than merely its historical significance. The poem itself only really obtained legitimacy in English language studies in the early 20 th century, due to efforts by J.R.R. It was pagan in origin, specifically Germanic and tribal, prior to its transcription by two men who were most likely devout Christians, and thus elements of paganism and hero worship wind up clashing with elements of Christianity and martyrdom – though it’s likely that, being an oral story, it had met with a fair number of revisions, lapses, and distortions through the years, incidental or deliberate. ![]() An oral epic poem, it was written down in a manuscript known as the Nowell Codex in England by two anonymous scribes. Let’s start with the former.Īs is likely obvious to all, “Beowulf” is the oldest surviving piece of English literature, being dated back to between the 8 th and the 11 th century. “Pride is the Curse” – promotional tagline for the filmĪll things in their context, naturally, both olde and contemporary. ![]()
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