... . It helps to explain one of the great puzzles of our epic. Why the poet himself with a plot of mere fabulous adventures so much inferior to the splendid heroic setting, unless the narrative derived a superior dignity from suggesting the most exalted hero-life known to Christians. " Both Kemble and Klaeber are intrigued by the author's focus on Beowulf's; charity and other non warrior ... attributes with a back drop of great battles. It must be noted ... with any particular identification, but I do suggest that he did think of Unferth as DiscordiaÆ'x, as the name of Unferth suggests."...

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