Reading notes Week 12 Part A

This weeks reading was interesting because I chose to read the Beowulf stories. For the Part A reading, I thought it was great. I read Beowulf in high school and it was a very difficult text to read because of the style of writing. In the reading this week it was re-written to a more modernistic language which made it easier to understand contextually. While it was not exactly the same, I did enjoy how the stories were told. The warrior himself is seen as a mighty an powerful being as usual and is arrogant as ever. I think for this weeks storytelling assignment that I will try to write in this style. Giving the background information first while being very detailed in who the characters are and what their purpose to the story is. Even though I think the story will be longer this week it will be worth it because I think that it will be really interesting to read. I am looking forward to reading the Part B of the stories because I saw that Grendel comes into the stories.

Beowulf in Battle

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Bibliography: "Beowulf" from The Story of Beowulf by Strafford Riggs Webtext