Jonathan Pageau | Universal History: Beowulf - with Richard Rohlin @JonathanPageau | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
In this episode of my Universal History series with Richard Rohlin, we discuss the Old English poem, Beowulf. Also, stay tuned for an online course we will host in the coming months about Beowulf from a symbolic perspective.

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Timestamps:
00:00:00 - Coming up next...
00:00:36 - Intro music
00:01:02 - Announcements from Richard
00:04:47 - Upcoming online course on Beowulf
00:06:21 - Introduction to Beowulf
00:10:42 - The author of Beowulf
00:13:10 - Apocryphal Christian literature preserved
00:17:00 - The Beowulf character and the 3 monsters
00:20:24 - Grendel and the Book of Enoch
00:23:46 - How did the giants re-emerge?
00:31:03 - How is there still a line of Cain after the flood?
00:32:01 - Giants representing civilization
00:35:51 - Links to the Book of Enoch
00:39:09 - The name of Grendel
00:40:49 - Grendel's mother: the siren
00:42:46 - The idolatry of the Danes
00:46:19 - Homilary
00:48:33 - The arkenstone
00:49:29 - Homily 16: hell
00:57:56 - What's great about the Beowulf poem

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