Monday, March 31, 2003
Discussion
I have been discussing Beowulf with a lot of people these days. More than half have heard of Beowulf and know parts - especially Grendel. A lot haven't even thought of reading it. Maybe they didn't have to read it in highschool or they just don't remember. I vaguely remember it myself, but since coming to BSU and meeting Dr. Evans, I have come to fully appreciate it and have loved doing the research that I have, in order to understand the poem better than its face value.
~Ayleen~ at
9:06 PM
Saturday, March 22, 2003
Library Work
I spent two hours at the library today and found some great information on the woven stories within the text. I will be adding that information when I have time.
I plan on uploading the beginnings of my Beowulf pages on monday. I suppose I am a little scared to show Dr. Morgan the template because he may find something wrong with it. I worked very hard and for hours on them. Yet, that's the way it goes - best to have a second, third, or fourth opinion anyway.
~Ayleen~ at
10:14 PM
Friday, March 21, 2003
Absence and Renewal of Interest
On account of Midterms, Spring Break, and Sickness I had neglected my Senior project for a few weeks. I am back, though.
I have found a different design for my template that I like a lot better than previous ones. This one seems to be a lot cleaner and easier on the eyes. I have added more runic design of my own and hopefully this will be all the tweaking I will do. I have put in pages that I have prepared during my scheduled times and am pleased with the results. I need to do some more tweaking on presentation of my results with call-out boxes and other fun things.
Tomorrow I plan to go to the library and consider more research for the project and hopefully sometime next week I will begin to upload beginning pages that will lead the way to my final product.
~Ayleen~ at
9:50 PM
Thursday, March 06, 2003
Woven Stories
I would like to dicuss The stories:
*The Race of Cain - The demonic monsters and giants that descended from Cain's clan.
*The Breca saga - As told by Unferth and the relevance it had in the story
*The saga of Sigemund and perhaps a link to the full story as told in the Chickering book
*The burning of Heorot that is foretold in the lines 82-85 and their significance
*Heremod mentioned a few times.
*The Finnsburh Episode, a link perhaps to the Finnsburh Fragment
*Hrothulf is mentioned in later lines.
*The mention of Freawaru being married off to Ingeld to mend some feud - comes to a bad ending.
~Ayleen~ at
7:32 PM
