Biden and Beowulf: Three Thoughts on the Elections
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We are still pagans I’ve been reading Beowulf recently, in the very fine Heaney translation, as part of an ongoing learning journey. One discovery has been this notion of a Germanic ethos in the early Middle Ages in Western civilization. This ethos implied an incredible individualism. You lived for the moment, for fame in the here and now; and you won that fame by fighting battles. It was a world filled with feuds.
Biden and Beowulf: Three Thoughts on the Elections
Biden and Beowulf: Three Thoughts on the…
Biden and Beowulf: Three Thoughts on the Elections
We are still pagans I’ve been reading Beowulf recently, in the very fine Heaney translation, as part of an ongoing learning journey. One discovery has been this notion of a Germanic ethos in the early Middle Ages in Western civilization. This ethos implied an incredible individualism. You lived for the moment, for fame in the here and now; and you won that fame by fighting battles. It was a world filled with feuds.