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	Text	Me	Conclusions
Personality	She is honest about herself and she only tries to speak the truth	Good that she is her own person	She is strong willed
Beliefs	She is very religious (understatement of the century)	She believes that if she didn’t confess she would be attacked but didn’t get to finish & Jesus saved her	She has been driven crazy by the jerkish religious dude
Illness	She thought she was going to die	She went out of her mind when the priest was mean to her	Most of her illness was from chemical imbalances
Society	Says that she is crazy and not to be trusted.	She was crazy but had been driven that way by chemical and physical tendencies	She was crazy but there was a reason for it

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Pg. 72

“Everyone, said Hjalti, can be fooled by scheming.”

This is a forshadow of King Hjorvar and Skuld’s attack on Hrolf and his champions. Skuld approaches as a caring sister and comes to Hrolf under false pretenses of paying tribute to King Hrolf in one lump sum instead of over three years. She had been planning to overtake him through magic.

Pg. 78

“And events turned out as expected….you had no knowledge of your Creator.”

The theme of Christianity plays into the picture. There was no way King Hrolf would have been able to fight against Skuld’s witchcraft without believing in God. King Hrolf and the champions believed in the old gods and not in Christianity, which led them to their deaths. 

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Pg. 52

“The king answer….will now be called after the sword Golden Hilt.”

King Hrolf was noted by Svip as being generous and trustworthy and particular about his friends  in Chapter 15. This chapter proves that he has these traits by knowing the value of Bodvar, and how he was able to change Hott from being a bullied man into a champion even though he knows that Bodvar killed the beast and not Hott.

Pg. 65

“Bovar said, The hawk is behaving as if….hawks had been killed.”

This is a parallel to the battle that Hrof is  currently fighting in. Hrof’s hawk killed all of King Adil’s hawks, and King Hrolf’s men won the battle against King Adil’s men.

Pg. 66

“King Hrolf said…. Because you will be tested again.” The theme of fame and leaving a legacy was important as Queen Yrsa states that you have won much fame here. She got even with King Adils for killing her father/husband by giving their son great wealth and helping him against her current husband. Her prophecy also came true that King Adils chances of success would be very good. 

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Pg. 37

“ She then struck him with her wolfskin……more dreadful to you than no remembrance at all.” The theme of magic is shown again when Queen Hvit put a curse on Bjorn after he rejected her. He has turned into a bear by day. What would have happened to him if he had surcome to his step-mother’s wishes? Would he have been killed or was this practice acceptable?

Pg 39

“The king then returned home…….and she burst out laughing.”

The Queen still is avenging Bjorn’s rejection of her even after his death. She targets the love of his life by forcing her to do what Bjorn warned her not to do: eat some of the bear meat. Bjorn knew there would be repercussions, but Queen Hvit probably would have killed Bera if she rejected eating any of the meat.

Pg. 43

“Bodvar became so filled with fury….dragging her through every street.”  Bodvar avenged the death of his father by killing the witch, Queen Hvit. Interestingly King Hring knew that she caused the disappearance of his son but chose to ignore it because he supposedly loved her. Maybe he was also afraid of her magical powers and didn’t want to do anything to make her mad so he wouldn’t be killed. 

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Pg. 29

“Now we return to farmer Svip……another three are still fighting.” Through Svip’s magical abilities he realizes his son needed help. He doesn’t want to send his other two sons because he knows if he sends them away he is releasing them into the world. They won’t return home again once they have experienced life outside the farm. Although he knows if he doesn’t send his sons, then his oldest son will be killed so he decides to send them out anyway.

Pg .30

“I want to look for …..winning a great a victory for you.”

Ironically, Svipdag and his brothers are driven away by King Adils who doesn’t keep his word and doesn’t reward them for their battles. Adils doesn’t understand until it was too late how great the 3 brothers were as warriors, and how valuable they were to him and his kingdom.

Pg 35

“At this time, the king was getting on in years, and the effects of his age were soon apparent in the queen’s behavior. This is a foreshadow of what will happen in the future. Queen Hvit is not happy being married to an older man so obviously she will try to find a younger man. 

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Pg. 21

“King Helgi suffered deeply…..enraged that she had married another man.”  Considering that men were so quick to go to battle and kill anyone who was in their way of fame including their kin, it was ironic that it took so long for King Helgi to go after Yrsa whom he loved, and who obviously loved him.

Pg. 24

“With King Helgi fell all the followers…..fled home to Denmark.” So completes the end of the revenge of Queen Olof. This whole episode could have been avoided if King Helgi hadn’t had such a big ego and decided to marry Olof to increase his fame and fortune. 

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Pg. 19

What a messed up family. After King Helgi maimed his nephew in revenge for killing his uncle, he marries his daughter, Yrsa, and they have a son. “He and Yrsa loved each other deeply.” This is a foreshadow of what evil things will happen in the future due to the nature of their unhealthy relationship as husband and wife.

Pg. 20

Queen Olof is still seeking revenge through her daughter whom she didn’t even want or care for. Yrsa is still a pawn between her mother and father. “Your contentment….. he is your father, and you are my daughter.” Strangely, Yrsa gives up the man she loves even though it was a little strange that he was her dad to go live with her unknown mother whom obviously didn’t want her after she was born.

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Pg. 17
 “The best solution…threw the ring as far out as he could into the sea.” Since Hrok threw the ring, it was surprising that his food got chopped off instead of his arm since that is the body part that threw the ring into the sea. Also, his mother was the one who gave the ring to her bother, and then uses her power over her son to try to get it back.

Pg. 18

“She answered with deep sorrow…..I will not reject him.” In a fit of revenge, Hrok killed Hroar, his uncle, for chopping off his leg, and then expects Hroar’s queen who is pregnant to marry him. How could she even want to marry someone who killed her husband? There is no way she could ever support him. 

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Pg. 15

“Your eyes are not those of a servant……sailed home to his kingdom.” In a twisted turn of fate, King Helgi unknowingly marries his own daughter. This is secretly a revenge for Queen Olof since she was taken against her will and held captive. The queen doesn’t acknowledge her daughter, and the only reason she has a name is because of the queen’s dog.

Pg. 16

“In public she pretended….and loved her very much. This is a foreshadow of events to come. Queen Olof predicts that joy and success will never come to them, and she will do everything to make sure they are both brought down even her own daughter whom she has never loved.

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Pg. 7

“ Now, you have come home…Home to Hel.” The dream is a prophecy of what is to become of Kind Frodi and his men. He will burn in hell for killing his brother, King Haldan. His sons will avenge their father’s death.

Pg. 12

The fate of King Helgi in his attempt to marry Queen Olof was twisted, as she showed no signs of not liking him, but in fact once he was drunk took her own fate into her hands. She got rid of him, and probably would have been better off killing him because she turned into a spiteful woman. “ The king had drunk so much….in a vile temper regarding the queen.”

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Pg. 3

The significance of the dogs is revealed. “He told the brother to be…….danger has come to the island.” Frodi searches in vain because the boys hide when they hear the names of the dogs being called.

Pg. 4

Vivil calls King Frodi out after he questions him. “You are without doubt a sly one….to me that doing so is ill-advised.” He dares the king to kill him so he will have done something on the island. Due to this calculated move by Vivil, King Frodi decides he cannot be bothered and doesn’t. 

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Pg. 1 - 3

Magic Chapter 1- Vivil’s good magic was protecting the boys on the island. Frodi’s evil sorcerers are using magic to look for them since human spy eyes failed. The island is shrouded behind mist and magic. 

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Pg. 2 and 3

Kin Killing

“Arriving in the dead of the night, Frodi burned…… who refused were subject to torture.” This is an example of kin killing due to Frodi being jealous and envious because his kingdom hasn’t done very well, and King Halfdan was successful.  

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Pg. 1

"An island lay a short distance from Halfdan's stronghold; on it lived a karl or freeman named Vifil...two hounds Hopp and Ho. Vifil was a man of substance and if threatened, was well versed in the arts of old magic.”

Vivil was a friend of King Halfdan and was a sorcerer, which explains why he was alone. The island and he held magical powers. Normally, animals are no mention except for when they are important so they must be significant in this story.

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 The first paragraph from chapter one tells the liniage and the conections with the first group of characters. This beginning is typical of most pre-medieval/pagen stories. King Halfdan has two sons ,Hroar and Helgi, a daughter, Signy, and a brother named Frodi(who kills Halfdan for kingship). The typical beginning is esental so those who are new to the story/characters can know where they came from and why they do what they do.

seafarer

       The seafarer can easily be seen as two parts, the first about a young inexperienced pagan man, the second an old wise christen man, both of which see the world differently. The first part is about the young seafarer complaining about how he feels exiled wether at home or at sea. But when he grows old he reminisces about the loss of his king and that he is truly all alown now. He finds God and says that is all that matters any more.

6 Q.s

1. He can’t wait to get home but once he is he can’t wait to get back to the sea.

2. Because all of his people have been killed off (he might be in Beowulf).

3. She wants him to go through all the feelings that he has put her through (probably unintentional).

4.             A. He is remembering that it was miserable with physical hardships but he still wanted to go back. In the second half he was saying that death is the end result, and that except for God nothing really matters.

            B. He is remembering the slaughter of his people and how nothing is left except for the remains of a crumbling wall, and how easily these things vanish as if they didn’t exist.

            C. She is unhappy and wonders how they started happy and got to this state. She knows that people had tried to spit them up, but she didn’t break it off. She then questions how the guy that she thought was the right one became a murderer and now she is living a life of hardships.

5. They are all about the main character being in exile and the mood is gloomy. The theme life is a hard and full of disappointments, loss, and sorrow.

6. One idea is that life is hard and full of sorrow and that everything end. Religion is important to some but not all, though all are at least partly religious.