All 6 Uses of
epic
in
Beowulf - (translated by: Gummere)
- Footnotes:{0a}Not, of course, Beowulf the Great, hero of the epic.†
*epic = an outstanding work of literature or film
- {13c}The singer has sung his lays, and the epic resumes its story.†
- As before about Sigemund and Heremod, so now, though at greater length, about Finn and his feud, a lay is chanted or recited; and the epic poet, counting on his readers' familiarity with the story, — a fragment of it still exists, — simply gives the headings.†
- {29c}On the historical raid into Frankish territory between 512 and 520 A.D. The subsequent course of events, as gathered from hints of this epic, is partly told in Scandinavian legend.†
- {29d}The chronology of this epic, as scholars have worked it out, would make Beowulf well over ninety years of age when he fights the dragon.†
- {40c}Ten Brink points out the strongly heathen character of this part of the epic.†
Definition:
something that is outstanding -- especially a literary work that is long and heroic