Is this relevant outside of Anglo countries?

nah not really

>>78446515
No, literally discovered it last year
Why would old english texts be relevant for non-english countries?

>>78446515
It's known, not relevant

>>78446515
You mean the story?
Or this is some shitty tv show or somethibg?

Wouldn't say it's relevant here. I only found out about it after doing some reading on ye olde english

we don't study it

Very relevant.

>>78446585
You didn't learn about it in school?
I had to study it in several grades.

>>78446697
Really? Why?

>>78446515
I thought it was Danish story? Might be known there

>>78446818
Not mentioned once. I only knew the name from that shitty movie that came out int he 2000s.

>>78446870
It's considered an olde English text.
But apparently the tribes that are mentioned are Danish, Dutch, and Swedish.
Or at least located in those countries in the modern age.

>>78446818
I didn't even learn about it in school desu

the only old stuff we read was shakespere, though I did only study english until I was 16, so maybe the kids who did literature for A-level studied it

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>>78446978
It was just the basic english courses all americans have to take.....

Is it just the DOE we wuzzing..

The story itself? It is known here at least, although not very famous.

I wish they would make a movie or video game adaption of the story in modern times, with cyberpunk or similar elements. Then they could call it Neowulf and it would be the bomb.

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>>78447257

>>78447271
A breathtaking vision, isn't it?

>>78446818
We don't have our own mythology or written epics, so we study foreign ones. In school we studied Beowulf, Iliad, Kalevala, Ramayana etc

>>78446978
Literature over here was Shakespeare, some English and Australian poets and English novels.
Nothing ever went further back than Shakespeare

Obviously I'm not English, but beyond the quota Australian shit I'd imagine there isn't too much difference between our content.

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>>78446515
not very
tolkien popularized it though with his hobbit

i have read it (rebsamen's translation, never liked heaney, and tolkien's one isnt really very good too) and desu gardner's "grendel" is better

>>78447481
nani
never heard of any of that being studied in the highschool, well maybe except iliada

also dunno, we certainly read "the tale of igor's campaign", which is btw much older than 19th century kalevala

>>78447719
>the tale of igor's campaign
It's a well-known fake. A parody of european epic poems, like Beowulf. We don't have any culture of our own.

well, it is known but ask french people (actual french people, not muhammads and mamadous), they will probably not tell you much about it

>>78447843
lolwhat
it has absolutely zero similarities with beowulf

it is largely recognized as authentic, especially since its medieval birch records were discovered in 1950ss

for a proven fake you could mention "the book of veles" which is either from 1940ss or from 19th century but not earlier, but it is still a pretty good book so no wonder that neopagans like it

desu i dunno why i waste my time speaking to you

>>78446552
>Why would old english texts be relevant for non-english countries?
>why would the story of Gilgamesh be relevant to Europeans
>why would the Old Testament be relevant to anyone outside of the Jews
>why would the Tale of Genji be relevant to anyone outside of Japan
Because getting educated about ancient cultures matters?

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>>78447398
The cyberpunk card game Netrunner does have a corporation named GRNDL (Grendel), so someone vaguely beat you to the punch

>>78448468
being useful for learning about a long since irrelevant culture doesn't make it a relevant piece of literature

>>78448545
The Tale of Genji was literally the first novel. It's a large part of literary formalism

>>78448468
Beowulf (and Anglo-saxons in general) don't hold a candle to any of the things you mentioned.

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>>78448771
>the oldest poem in the English language

>>78446978
Did you guys do Canterbury Tales? We did both Beowulf and Canterbury Tales in high school English.

>>78448558
i think the first actual novel it's don quixote