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《贝奥武甫》是一部用古英语讲述古日耳曼历史故事的史诗巨著。由于这部作品与日耳曼传统有着紧密的联系,它和日耳曼文化圈中的其他中世纪文学作品一样,带有显著的日耳曼文化特征,因此,《贝奥武甫》中的人名大多与古日耳曼社会的传统人名一样,在故事中不断传递着丰富的历史文化信息。本文以古英语词源学为线索,试图通过再次解读格兰代尔这一名字中所隐含的神秘词义,进一步挖掘这一似人非人的狂野角色在日耳曼传说中或曾有过但已被历史掩埋了的古老故事。
Beowulf is an epic masterpiece that tells Old German history in Old English. Because of its close ties with Germanic traditions, which, like other medieval literature in the Germanic cultural circle, have significant Germanic cultural identities, most of the names in Beowulf are related to the tradition of Old Germanic society The same name, in the story continue to convey a wealth of historical and cultural information. This essay takes the etymology of Old English as a clue to try to find out how this wild, nonhuman character in Germanic legend has ever been or has been, by reading the mysterious meanings implicit in the name of Granger Ancient story buried in history.