Click2Flicks - BEOWULF - The Story Behind The Movie - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <div align=center><p><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>BEOWULF:</i></b></p> <p>THE STORY BEHIND THE MOVIE</b></font></p> <p align="center"><OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" WIDTH=210 HEIGHT=30> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/stories/beowulf_grendel/audio/ch1.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF> <EMBED src="http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/stories/beowulf_grendel/audio/ch1.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH=210 HEIGHT=30 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></EMBED> </OBJECT></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="104%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch2.htm">2. ROME LEAVES A POWER VACUUM</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch3.htm">3. "WOLVES" ENTER THE FOLD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch4.htm">4. INVADING ANGLO-SAXONS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch5.htm">5. DEFENDERS BECOME INVADERS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch6.htm">6. A CHANGING CULTURE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch7.htm">7. WHO WERE THE GEATS?</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch8.htm">8. SOURCE of the STORY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=102% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch9.htm">9. THE STORY SETTING</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch10.htm">10. HEOROT: THE MEAD-HALL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch11.htm">11. TROLLS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch12.htm">12. GRENDEL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch13.htm">13. BEOWULF</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch14.htm">14. GRENDEL'S MOTHER</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch15.htm">15. BATTLES and RUNE STONES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch16.htm">16. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><font size="3"><u><b><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></b></u></font></p> </div> <div align="center"> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <center><font face="Times New Roman"><i><b>Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark,<br> nursed a hard grievance. It harrowed him<br> to hear the din of the loud banquet<br> every day in the hall, the harp being struck<br> and the clear song of a skilled poet<br> telling with mastery of man’s beginnings ...</i></b></font><br><br> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.bagbybeowulf.com/video/index.html"><b><i>Beowulf</b></i></a><br> Anglo-Saxon Epic<br> Seamus Heaney <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0393320979/ref=sib_dp_pt/002-3372875-2276827#reader-link"><b>Translation</b></a></center> <p align="justify"><font face="arial,helvetica" size=3 color="000000">Sailing the short distance from Geatland to Denmark, the sixth-century warrior was sure he could help. His name was Beowulf. He would soon meet a monster - the “powerful demon” Grendel - who had terrorized the Danes for a dozen years.</p> <p> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/0631172262/ref=sib_dp_pt/203-7496185-3515126#reader-link"><b>The story of Beowulf</b></a> and his exploits, told by long-ago poets, comes to us through a single <a target="_blank" href="images/manuscript_Beowulf_original_courtesy_British.Library.jpg"><b>manuscript</b></a> written in Old English. Is the story true? Where (and when) was the manuscript written? And ... how could the story of Beowulf - about Scandinavian <a target="_blank" href="images/geats_danes_%20and_swedes_%20Mitchell.and.Robinson_geography_in_Beowulf.An.Edition_1998_pg.xiii.jpg"><b>Geats, Danes and Swedes</b></a> - become Britain’s national epic?</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="beowulf_grendel_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> <p align="left"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="1">To cite this story, using <a href="http://www.mla.org/style/style_faq/style_faq4" target="_blank"><b>MLA Guidelines</b></a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Bos, Carole D. "Beowulf: The Story Behind the Movie." AwesomeStories.com. Date of access <http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/beowulf_grendel/beowulf_grendel_ch1.htm>.<br> </blockquote> <p>IN OTHER WORDS: Author. Title of story. 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