BEOWULF question? about the gold and what it means to beowulf throughout his life?

Question

BEOWULF question? about the gold and what it means to beowulf throughout his life?

Answer 1

I believe it was more of a trophy for him. He was very successful in all his battles and I believe the gold represented his victory. After he battled the dragon he asked to see the gold so he would know what he fought for. Eventhough he died from his wounds, he still drefeated the dragon. I believed it represented his victory.

Answer 2

It means you need to do your own homework.



Y!A is not your personal army.

Answer 3

Beowulf Gold

Answer 4

Beowulf is a design for high-performance parallel computing clusters on inexpensive personal computer hardware. Originally developed by Donald Becker at NASA, Beowulf systems are now deployed worldwide, chiefly in support of scientific computing. A Beowulf cluster is a group of usually identical PC computers running a FOSS Unix-like operating system, such as Linux or BSD. They are networked into a small TCP/IP LAN, and have libraries and programs installed which allow processing to be shared among them. There is no particular piece of software that defines a cluster as a Beowulf. Commonly used parallel processing libraries include MPI (Message Passing Interface) and PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine). Both of these permit the programmer to divide a task among a group of networked computers, and recollect the results of processing. The name comes from the main character in the Old English epic Beowulf.

Answer 5

It was more of a trophy of his and he was poor when he was little so he kept some for himself. But he mainly got the gold, because the town that complained about Grendel and his mother and how they were using bribes and extortion throughout the town, that the gold was a way of bringing back the riches that were stolen from the town and it was given back to the town, as a gesture from him to the town. The town I'm sure gave him some gold for gratitude and for helping them kill Grendel and the mother to what they did to the people's town. That is what the gold met for him.

Answer 6

This belongs in either the literature or the mythology section.

Answer 7

I have no idea! An the sad part is, I just read it... um. I think that because he was poor throughout his life, gold is what makes him rich, after all,didnt he come to get rid of grendel for the money??? Also to be a hero....lol sorry for like noo help =)))

Answer 8

Gold, Treasure, and Gifts



In Beowulf, gold, treasure, and gifts are less important for their economic value than their social value. In fact, gold can be seen as a symbol of social interaction: a lord rewards loyalty with gold, and in doing so inspires further loyalty. The transfer of the gold is also a kind of physical embodiment of the lord’s duty to nurture his people. Gold can also act as a symbol of regret or a desire for peace: one way of avoiding a feud is to pay the wergild, the man-price, by compensating the family of the injured person with gold, to avoid more violent vengeance. ( I found this on the litcharts site. ). Sparknotes & Cliff Notes are also helpful site. My daughter had to read this last year. I read it along with her, & found it quite complicated, until I got help from these sites. Good Luck.