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Beowulf and Grendel: The Fight

The document summarizes three stories: 1) Beowulf fights and defeats the monster Grendel with his bare hands, killing him. 2) After Beowulf's death, the Geat people build a large funeral pyre and construct a burial mound in his honor. 3) The ballad "Geordie" tells the story of a woman pleading for the life of her lover Geordie, who faces hanging for poaching the king's deer, though the judge cannot pardon him.

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Beowulf and Grendel: The Fight

The document summarizes three stories: 1) Beowulf fights and defeats the monster Grendel with his bare hands, killing him. 2) After Beowulf's death, the Geat people build a large funeral pyre and construct a burial mound in his honor. 3) The ballad "Geordie" tells the story of a woman pleading for the life of her lover Geordie, who faces hanging for poaching the king's deer, though the judge cannot pardon him.

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Beowulf and Grendel: the fight

Grendel enters into Heorot. He immediately devours a warrior while Beowulf carefully
observes. When Grendel tries to catch Beowulf, Grendel is confused to find his arm gripped
with such great strength.Grendel tries to escape, but Beowulf keeps to fight.Beowulf’s men
try to help his lord but no weapon on earth is capable of harming Grendel. Beowulf becomes
even stronger and succeeds in killing Grendel.

Beowulf’s funeral
The Geat people built a pyre for Beowulf and they hung helmets,shields and armour on it.
He laid in the middle of it with the fire lit.Geat People were disconsolate and cried for him.
Then they constructed a barrow on a hill in ten days,it was their hero’s memorial.
They also buried jewels and a treasure and then twelve warriors rode around the tomb.

Geordie
This Ballad originated in Scotland but its date of composition is unknown.
A narrator coming over London Bridge hears a young woman lamenting for her Geordie,a
hunter who kills animals without permission. She says he will be hung in a golden chain
because he was of royal blood.She calls for horses to ride to London for him. She pleads
that Geordie's crimes weren't serious, in that he only stole some of the king's deer and sold
them, and says she would even give up one of her two children to save his life.At the end,the
judge unfortunately says that he cannot pardon Geordie.

Lord randal
This ballad is in a dialogue form,the story is told through questions and answers between
lord Randal and his mother.
Young Lord Randal returns home after a long hunting day in the greenwood where he has
met his “true-love”. He is tired and he would lie down. His “true-love” gave him eels fried in a
pan and his dogs died after having the leftovers. Therefore he understands that he is going
to die because she poisoned him.He says he will leave twenty-four cows to his mother, gold,
and silver to his sister, houses and lands to his brother, hell and fire to his lover.
is told through questions and answers that are in the dialogue form.

The Canterbury Tales’ General prologue


Chaucer opens the General Prologue with a description of the return of spring. He describes
the April rains, the burgeoning flowers and leaves, and the singing birds. Around this time of
year, the narrator says, people begin to feel the desire to go on a pilgrimage. Many devout
English pilgrims set off to visit shrines in distant holy lands, but even more choose to travel
to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral because they
want to thank the martyr for having helped them when they needed him.
The narrator tells us that a great company of twenty-nine travelers who were on pilgrimage
like him entered the Tabard Inn,a tavern in Southwark(London).They agreed to let him join
them. That night, the group slept at the Tabard, and woke up early the next morning to set off
on their journey. Before continuing the tale, the narrator wants to describe each of the
members of the group.

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