Study Guide for Beowulf

Everything I wish I'd known about Beowulf!
TIMED LINKS:
The Setting:    • Study Guide for Beowulf  
Historical Context:    • Study Guide for Beowulf  
Nowell Codex: The Only Surviving Manuscript:    • Study Guide for Beowulf  
JRR Tolkien's Influence on Beowulf:    • Study Guide for Beowulf  
Technical Craft of Poem:    • Study Guide for Beowulf  
Summary:    • Study Guide for Beowulf  

RESOURCES:
Pronunciation guide http://drmarkwomack.com/pdfs/beowulf-...
University of Chicago on the history of the Beowulf manuscript
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/e...
JRR Tolkein’s Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics:
http://producer.csi.edu/cdraney/2011/...
Dr. Tom Shippey on JRR Tolkein’s Beowulf
Lecture 1:
   • JRR Tolkien's Beowulf with Dr. Tom Sh...  
Lecture 2:
   • JRR Tolkien's Beowulf with Dr. Tom Sh...  

Beowulf! The tale of the baddest Geat to ever Geat. Tolkien said that the Dragon in Beowulf is one of only two true dragons in all of literature - the other being Fafnir. The influence of both these dragons is very visible in a lot of our more modern fantasy: for instance, where Beowulf's Dragon inspired Smaug, o chiefest and greatest of calamities, Fafnir inspired C. S. Lewis to include that cursed bracelet thing that turned Eustace into a dragon in Voyage of the Dawn Treader. And I think we all know the badder of those two dragons, so I guess Tolkien - and, by extension, Beowulf - wins this round.
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