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the primary role of women is steer and further progress the saga as the connecting characters. Almost all the female characters in the story were seen as a possession and/or wife. One of the few exceptions to this would be Queen Olof, the mother of Yrsa. Queen Olof acted more as if she were a king rather than a Queen, in the sense that she would “dress in a coat of mail, carried a sword and shield, and wore a helmet” (Anon, 6. King Helgi attempts). She ruled over her own land in Saxland and had no

Fierceness in Beowulf and in The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki        Is fierceness mentioned only in Beowulf or is it an element common also to this famous Icelandic saga? Is fierceness described the same way as in Beowulf?   The Anglo-Saxons prior to 1000AD were as a race fierce. They possessed great courage. Beowulf reflects their fierceness and courage in a variety of ways. Beowulf complains to Unferth in the Danish court: “Grendel would never have done such horrors … if you were so

Beowulf and The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki      There are so many similarities between the hero of the poem Beowulf and The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, an Iceland saga representing 1000 years of oral traditions prior to the 1300’s when it was written, that these similarities cannot be attributed solely to coincidence.   The Cambridge History of English and American Literature states that the hero of the poem, Beowulf himself, may be the same person as Bodvar Biarki, the chief of Hrolfr

Women in Beowulf , Widsith and Icelandic Sagas                          Are women in these poems active equals of the men? Or are they passive victims of the men? The roles of the women in Beowulf, Widsith, The Saga of The Volsungs, and the Saga of King Hrolf Kraki are not always stereotyped ones of passive homemaker and childbearer and peaceweaver, but sometimes ones giving freedom of choice, range of activity, and opportunity for personal growth and development.   Let us first of

language to really draw out their emotions and opinions on the complicated matter of love. These two poems have a lot of similarities and differences between them and all in all approach the topic of love very differently. The poem “What Love Isn’t” by Yrsa Daley-Ward, has lots of metaphors that are

“I spent a lot of time alone in my room, checking my email, desperate to hear from the guy I loved. I decided that if my friends could not understand my grievous affliction, then I did not need their friendship.” states Mandy Len Catron, “So I stopped hanging out with most of them.” Through her speech, Catron shows that she values love more than her friends. Love is a thing of immense value that can mean more to people than anything else in the world. The value of love is incomparable to anything

Certain authors utilize their works to portray love from their perspective and/or experience. In “Love Song, with Two Goldfish” by Grace Chua, the author illustrates rejection in the most heartbreaking way possible. In the poem “What Love Isn’t” by Yrsa Daley-Ward, she depicts love as unbearable and somber rather than the joyful and wholesome experience consistently shown throughout pop culture. In the short story, “Was It a Dream?” by Guy de Maupassant, the narrator grieves the loss of his beloved

then took her and raped her. This shows how although kings during that time were seen to be ideal warriors, they were also flawed. Like King Frodi, King Helgi lacked some morals and eventually suffers the consequences of his actions when his daughter Yrsa who later found out that he was her father and he had raped her mother, had him attacked. Then there is King Hrolf Kraki who shows us an example of what was a truly great king. King Hrolf has most of the honorable traits of that time that