1. Jeg skal beklage min dårlige hukommelse, for det Lidegaard skrev om arianisme, er jeg med på. Også med hensyn til Beowulf, det var det første jeg tænkte på, da jeg slog øjnene op i morges. Faktisk skrev jeg selv til manden bag siden heorot, da han ikke kunne forstå jeg mente, at digtet måtte være skrevet af en kristen. Jeg har lige fundet de eksempler frem, jeg sendte, baseret på Haarders The Appeal of a Poem:
Already in lines from 106 you have the Creator, Cain and Abel ... I don't really understand the notes, why is should not be the God from the Bible plus Cain and Abel ...
In the poem, there are many references to God, as you already know, here are some of them:
930 God can always work wonder after wonder
940 through the Lord's power
945 the Old Measurer of Fate
955 may the All-Ruler you
967 when the Measurer of Fate did not wish it,
979 how him the glorious Measure of Fate
1056 except for them wise God that fate had prevented,
1609 when frost's bond the Father loosens, [1609] often interpreted as the Christian 'God the Father', but the context certainly does not demand it. In fact, the 'naturalistic' context (spring melting the ice of winter) rather suggests a pre-Christian 'Father'.
Sounds reasonable to me, after having read your notes.
1716 though him mighty God with joys of strength
2330 ... the Ruler against ancient law eternal Lord had bitterly angered;
2647 Now is the day come that our liege-lord (what is that?)
2794 to the Lord of All
2795 to the Glory-King
2796 to the eternal Lord, which I look on here,
2858 the judgement of God would rule the deeds
3054 any man, unless God himself,
Her er en anden kilde:
"The English poetry of the heathen age was first written down by Christian clerks, and most of it only survives in texts which are affected by Christian ideas and imagery. At its height this influence extends to the permeation of an entire poem with Christian feeling. A poem such as Beowulf, in which aristocratic traditions are enveloped in a Christian atmosphere, is an invaluable record of the intellectual outlook of the men under whose protection Christianity was established in England."
Source:
Stenton, F.M.: Anglo-Saxon England,
Third Edition, (p192).
Oxford University Press, reprint 1975.
2. Goter og Teodorik.Der er billedet på Rökstenen, og så er ddr udgravningerne ved Finnestorp, som man mener har med sagen at gøre.
www.finnestorp.se - graveholdet rejste til Ravenna for at se på Teodoriks gravmæle m.v.
Mere kommer ....