drunkenfool
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In my class today at teh language school we were doing a discussion on famous people from our respective countries ancient history, and I was struggling to think of an example, so my teacher asked me about Beowulf. I had no idea what she was on about though, and i consider myself a fairly well read person, do all you lot already know the story? She seemed quite shocked that I had no idea what she was on about!  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf
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LeeM
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i knew i recognised the name
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IvIarkgraham
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yeah i know about beowulf
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C2RL R
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this was taught at my old school but only to the people in top set english, therefore i had only heard of it and had no idea what its about.
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drunkenfool
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57 views and 3 replies, I get the feeling i might not be the only one who doesnt know it hehehe
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Rebecca
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I read it at school.
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Rebecca
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The Volsung Saga are also a pretty good old school stories.
One of my favorite authors melvin burgess has reworked them sort of to more modern day.
Bloodtide and Bloodsong. Both well worth a read.
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Nic Barnes
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we didnt have books in my school.
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Marc
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Covered it briefly at school.
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dan_c4rsa
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i did beowulf in primary and secondary.
is just about the guy called beowulf slaying grendel some ugly fuck with a bad temper.
apparently grendel had a son or daughter and somewhere theres another story about that.
Beowulf was actually a poem when first written.
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Greg_M
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yes it is an english legend. Pretty boring one tbh
but saying you couldnt think of one
King arther
Robin Hood
St. George
Boadicea
I bet none of this is taught in school anymore  I bets all how the americans won the second world war
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Greg_M
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Also just remembered
Gog and magog (think its spelt like that)
Brutus (of troy i think)
Bran
Godiva
[Edited on 19-11-2007 by Greg_M]
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Deadude
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one of my teachers gave me a nickname beowulf in school not a clue why  didnt know what it meant till i saw about the film
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phil_sutton
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quote:
we didnt have books in my school.
ours had cocks drawn on every other page and half the pages ripped out
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Nic Barnes
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is that better or worse than having no books? i got this far learning off of cumbrian cave paintings. cant be that bad surely.
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