Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . ch Court and finally into Germany, inthe thirteenth century. That this is the case is confirmed by interior episodes inthe poems, which are claimed to be Scandinavian in char-acter by Northern students. We have so far said nothing of Anglo-Saxon the verdict of modern scholarship is correct, that theNorse ideas are largely derived from the Northwest of Eng-land, some trace of it must be expected, and this is seen inthe poem of Beowulf. The hatred of race and the differenceof tongue between the Celts and the Anglo-Saxons impliesan impossibility of intercours
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . ch Court and finally into Germany, inthe thirteenth century. That this is the case is confirmed by interior episodes inthe poems, which are claimed to be Scandinavian in char-acter by Northern students. We have so far said nothing of Anglo-Saxon the verdict of modern scholarship is correct, that theNorse ideas are largely derived from the Northwest of Eng-land, some trace of it must be expected, and this is seen inthe poem of Beowulf. The hatred of race and the differenceof tongue between the Celts and the Anglo-Saxons impliesan impossibility of intercourse between them of a literarykind, but relations between the Danes of England and theinhabitants of Scandinavia were constant, as also betweenthe Vikings in Iceland and the people in the North of Scot-land. Beowulf is a poem of pre-Christian days in Eng-land, about A. D. 750. It is pagan in spirit and a closeneighbor of the Eddas. It is said to be a translation of aScandinavian original, or to have been composed in Anglo- 42. A FIFTEENTH CENTURY REPRESENTA-TION OF A STUDENT AT WORK ON A MAN-USCRIPT IN A ROOM IN WHICH ARE KEPTGREAT BOOKS OF PARCHMENT, ONSHELVES PROTECTED BY CURTAINS. Saxon. The author rejoices in battle, and for him the vic-torious champion is the perfect type of humanity, as it wasamong the Norse. He has a marked affection for the seems to have voyaged with sea-rovers and loves thespacious-boat, the ring-prowed ship. Like the IcelandicSkalds, he uses many epithets. A ship is a sea-floater, asea goer, the curve prowed. Beowulf was a warriorminstrel apparently, that is a Skald, possibly a minstrel ofEtheheds Court. He speaks of the ringed-mail and ofswords, and calls the harp glee-wood. By this poem the Xorthern peoples are revealed as ma-terially civilized, with a high and pure morality, apart fromwar and plunder, men of real poetical genius. Most of theirworks are lost, this having been preserved on account ofChristian interpolations, when others were des
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