However the few pieces of literature that made it out of the Dark Ages provide a more insightful understanding as to what this murky gap in history was really like-one of these pieces is the heroic epic of "Beowulf". ... There are quite a few models of powerful women in this epic-Grendel's mother, for example-but none is more expressive of true Anglo-Saxon culture than Wealhtheow. ... Throughout the entire poem, Wealhtheow "is the embodiment of concord" (Camargo 115). ... This man is none other than the legendary warrior, Beowulf, the hero of the poem "Beowulf&quo...

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While the classic battle between good and evil forces is a major theme of the medieval epic "Beowulf," one may question whether these good and evil forces are as black and white as they appear. ... This ultimately evokes traces of sympathy in the reader for the plight of these "monster" figures, and blurs the fine line between good and evil within the poem The first opponent Beowulf must face in the land of the Danes is Grendel, textually described as "a fiend out of hell a grim demon haunting the marches, marauding round the heath and the desolate fens" (Beowulf, line 1...

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