In your view, who wins the flyting in “Unferth’s Challenge”?

English 111, Essay 1

Date due: 30 January 2018

Length: 3-4 pages

 

INSTRUCTIONS: Answer the following question in essay format:

 

In your view, who wins the flyting in “Unferth’s Challenge”?

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NOTES:

• Please conform your paper to Modern Languages Association (MLA) format (see the “Sample Essay” PDF available on Blackboard as a template).
• Please turn in a printed copy (stapled in the top-left corner) of your essay response paper.
• Please include the following citation on your Work Cited page at the end of your paper:

 

“Unferth’s Challenge.” English 111 Course Pack, edited by Michelle Thurlow, University of

 

Saskatchewan, 12 December 2017, p. 1. Course Pack.

 

• Please include at least one quotation from the poem for every body paragraph of your essay (minimum three quotations total).
• When quoting from the poem, include the line number(s) from the poem in parentheses (round brackets) after the quotation.
• When quoting three lines or less from the poem, separate each line in your quotation with a slash:

 

While admitting that he technically lost his contest with Breca, Beowulf nevertheless insists he

 

himself had “more of might in the sea / than any man else, more ocean-endurance” (534-35).

 

• When quoting four or more lines from the poem, set off your material as a block quotation:

 

Beowulf informs his audience that his trusty armor prevented ocean predators from devouring

 

him during the sea storm:

 

yet me ‘gainst the monsters my mailed coat,

 

hard and hand-linked, help afforded,—

 

battle-sark braided my breast to ward,

 

garnished with gold. (551-54)