>big bad monster with inhumane strength defeated by super strong and super cool and super rich prince x3
>the end
>regarded as one of the greatest stories of all time
I can guarantee if anyone else wrote this exact story nobody would care.
Beowulf
>big bad monster with inhumane strength defeated by super strong and super cool and super rich prince x3
>the end
>regarded as one of the greatest stories of all time
I can guarantee if anyone else wrote this exact story nobody would care.
It’s the same exact thing. Era doesn’t matter.
Isn’t the greatness of this story more in its repetition in other work that came after it?
Not if it’s something that anyone could come up with. It doesn’t take a genius to come up with super strong guy fighting monster.
actually, beowulf only survives in a single manuscript that came to light around 1700. the poem itself was entirely forgotten for 7 centuries, give or take
>bugman doesn't intuitively understand the difference between modern capeshit/ya and ancient heroic folk epics
kys
Same thing
Came here to post this. I sense that lots of these posters are shitskins. All of the superior elements are lost on them. Guess that's why they were mostly kept illiterate for all of history.
Yeah and the Bible is just about a bunch of israelites learning to say "I'm sorry".
Half of it is the form in which a story is told, not the raw substance of the plot points or themes.
Bad comparison. The Bible has very little to do with repentance. The parts which talk about it is simple commandments of the readers. The majority of the Bible is a retelling of historical events.
>For example, the kenning banhus (ban + hus), literally "bone-house," refers to the human body; hronrad (hron + rad), literally "whale's road," refers to the sea; and rodores candel, literally "sky's candle," refers to the sun
Kino
Oh, it used metaphors?? Well I stand corrected!
The term is kenning, which is not a metaphor ESL brainlet
Back to comic books for you
>Young boy and a girl fall in love
>Their families hate eachother
>They kill themselves
>Oh no not really
>Nvm
What the frick?
Romeo and Juliet stayed dead fym
>Romeo takes his poison and dies, while Juliet awakens from her drugged coma. She learns what has happened from Friar Laurence, but she refuses to leave the tomb and stabs herself.
"Oh no not really" turns into "nvm"
The difference is that the epics of the past were true and anything written by a cityslicker of today would be false.
>see thing in the water
>I'm going to kill it no question
God I love German characters
No one who matters has ever said what your strawman is saying. They've said it's important and powerful because it's a primitive archetypal story.
>hurrrr if I made a cave painting handprint today nobody would care
Wow, genius insight! Dumb homosexual.
I am excited to read it after I finish learning Old Norse
I listened to Jackson Crawford recite Beowulf and it sounded very epic
How painful is the poetic language in terms of difficulty?
>be Geats and Danes
>we are a fragile light of civilization in a world seething with darkness and chaos
>beauty, strength, and heroism, are our most important values, with which we will beat back the enemies of humanity
>we create meaning in a meaningless world and establish order through our heroic deeds
>here is a song of the heroic ideal to inspire all men to rise to rise to the challenge
>be modern male
>buh buh buh what's the meaning of life
>wahh these homosexual europeans in the mid 1900s said life is pointless now I'm depressed waaah
>the world is meaningless so I'm just gonna sit in my room and jerk off all day
>I don't understand Beowulf it's just some strong guy killing a monster