ENG 283E: Our Premodern Epics: How Epics Create Culture and Vice Versa

Beowulf: Mead Hall

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Walhall_by_Emil_Doepler.jpgThis picture portrays Hrothgar’s mead hall in Heorot where the citizens of Danes drank and feasted. It's a vast building, used as a diplomatic headquarters, a place to administer justice, plan battle, and hold entertainments. Ultimately Beowulf tears one of Grendel’s arms off in this location, and obtains the honor and respect of the king and his people.

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