tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Dec 29 08:02:28 2006
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Re: Beowulf tatlhlu'ta'?
- From: McArdle <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Beowulf tatlhlu'ta'?
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:00:49 -0800 (PST)
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- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
>In a message dated 12/28/2006 10:37:11 AM Central Standard Time,
>[email protected] writes:
>
>> The mention of Hamlet brought me to Beowulf, as I thought this story too
>> played in the old Nordic regions,
>
>Since Beowulf is in Old English, I always thought it took place in old
>England, which I've never heard called Nordic before.
>
>lay'tel SIvten
Beowulf is written in Old English, but the action of the story occurs in Denmark (killing of Grendel) and Sweden (killing of dragon). Beowulf himself was a Geat, whose people inhabited Geatland (Götaland) in southern Sweden.
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