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The context for the poem is obscure, but a version of the story also appears in a passage of the epic poem Beowulf, and some of the characters, such as Hnæf, are mentioned in other texts. The episode in Beowulf (lines 1068–1158) is about 90 lines long and appears in the form of a lay sung by Hrothgar 's scop at a feast in celebration of ...
Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. The poem begins in medias res or simply, "in the middle of things", a characteristic of the epics of antiquity. Although the poem begins with Beowulf's arrival ...
"The Long Night" takes place entirely at Winterfell and depicts the final battle between the Army of the Dead and the combined armies of the living, ending one of the series' primary storylines. The episode's title refers to the prolonged winter that occurred thousands of years earlier, in which the White Walkers first descended upon Westeros .
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Fans knew Sunday's episode would be death-filled and the longest battle scene in cinematic history certainly featured some devastating goodbyes. 'Game of Thrones' Battle of Winterfell: Actors who ...
Remounted page from Beowulf, British Library Cotton Vitellius A.XV, 133r First page of Beowulf, contained in the damaged Nowell Codex (132r). The Nowell Codex is the second of two manuscripts comprising the bound volume Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, one of the four major Old English poetic manuscripts.
"The Spoils of War" received universal praise from critics, with many hailing it as one of the best episodes of the series and listing the concluding battle sequence between Daenerys and Jaime, Arya's return to Winterfell and interaction with Brienne, and Daenerys and Jon's conversation at Dragonstone as highlights of the episode.
The battle of the sexes: a poem. 1723. A new ballad. 1723. The story of the three children. 1724. The pig and the mastiff: two tales. 1725. The Iliad in a nutshell: or Homer's Battle of the frogs and mice. 1726. To the memory of the right reverend father in God, Francis Gastrell. 1726. The prisons open'd: a poem. 1729. Online at the British Library