2/11/2013

Last week  was pretty emotional. We had two major quests (the Metaphorical Response and the Rolling Stone Interview), we fought the dragon (and I’m being generous with that word), and we witnessed Beowulf’s funeral after he gave up his life for his people.

Wow.

So today, as our ship leaves Sweden and the new king Wiglaf, we listen to one last story while we work on our Rolling Stone Interview: The 13th Warrior.

This is a movie based on Michael Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead, which is a novel based on a historical document and Beowulf. It takes a realistic interpretation of Beowulf as if the story was written down by a Muslim rather than a Christian. If you are working on an assignment and don’t catch the entire movie, there is a summary in LMS.

We also looked up and talked about the Venus figurines, or neolithic figurines. Archeology is fun and creepy!