Question

Summarize the 460 -489 stanza in the BATTLE of grendel and explain what is going on in each stanzas

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

(="Earth was nowhere to be found, nor heaven. There was a huge chasm and grass nowhere, before the sons of Bur raised up lands. they shaped the middle-world. The sun shone from the south on the stones of earth, then green leeks grew on the ground".)

Taylor (1998a) also points out that--in both the Norse account of the building of Asgarð and in the scop's song in Beo. following the construction of Heorot--evil soon arrives. Thus Beo. ll.99-101 find in analogue in Völuspá (8, 1-8):

(= "They played at tæfl [a chess-like board game] in the court, and were happy. They lacked no gold, until three came to them from the world of the giants, giant-maidens with terrifying power".)

Taylor (1998a:113) remarks: 'the conjunctions oð ðæt [OE, as in Beo. l. 100b, 'oð ðæt an ongan...'] and unz [ON, see above] are standard formulas in each poetic tradition to introduce a sudden change'.