An index is a tool, nothing more, nothing less: whether it is used to revisit a favorite passage, to "cheat" by not reading or by jumping to selected passages, or to locate passages for further study, it is not a moral instrument. Lisa Mirabile, "Origins and Objectives of
Thank You As a friend has observed, the real power of Learning on the internet is not found in the impressive and overwhelming mass of raw data that exists out here. Real Learning happens on a smaller scale, among the webs of personal connections shaped by common interests and a generous spirit. So I have people to thank. Many thanks to Suzanne Morine, whose very practical Index to The Catcher in the Rye gave me the big idea - and whose link to the American Society of Indexers gave me a few more. The above-quoted article by Lisa Mirabile has also given me much to think about. Check out her Index to The English Patient. Thanks to Fr. Bob Carroll for explaining some basic principles of calculus to me. Thanks to Dee Schulten for introducing me to Gardner's letter to Miss West's class. Thanks to the kind members of The John Gardner Discussion List who taught me a lot. Thanks to Tom Fasano for generously sharing his resources. Thanks to The Arch and the Abyss for a very useful Checklist of Secondary Sources. Thanks to Bernd Wahlbrink for pushing me to think about a connection between Grendel and Holden Caulfield. Thanks to Donald Buggert for lending a hand with some philosophical/theological intricacies (any goofs are mine). Thanks to Dannielle Spindler-Swart for steering me toward Norse mythology. This refreshed & relocated edition is gratefully dedicated to
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anarchistic 22 anarchy 120; see Red Horse animals; see individual animal name, zodiac signs
ants 14, 39, 71 apples, raining; see Unferth arrow 125; see zodiac signs art 42, 43, 47, 49; see illusion, lies, truth "Ashes to ashes" 73, 108 Athelgard 7 atoms 68 B
bears 8, 86
Blake, William, in epigraph blindness
"boobies, hemorrhoids, boils, slaver" 59, 70; see Dragon [allusion to 1 Samuel 6:11] boys and girls 50 Breca 160, 161 brute existent 73; see Grendel bull; see zodiac signs
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calf 18 Chance 70, 74 charm, charmed; see Grendel, charmed childhood 28 coastguard 152-53 complexity 69-71 concresence 132 conformity 67 connectedness, essence of everything 64 conservationists 70 cows 6, 8, 31, 33, 35, 99 crabs 8, 46, 48; see zodiac signs craftsmen 47; see goldworker, see wheelwright cricket 23, 72 Cut A 94 Cut B 110 D
"Death, transfiguration" 73; see Dragon [allusion to Tod und Verklärung, tone poem by Richard Strauss, 1889] deer; see Hart
desire 93, 132, 158 Devonian fish 72 dogmatism 14; see religion, theory dogs; see watchdogs
doom 53, 75, 165 dragon, a 15, 157 Dragon, the
E eagle 12, 21 Ecglaf; [father of Unferth] Ecgtheow 154 [father of Beowulf] eel 147 enemies 91, 173 epigraph by William Blake evil 132-33, 146, 174; see Ork ewe 6, 44 Expression defined 68, 69 eternity 74, 110, 146 eyes of strangers 16, 17, 21 F
fox 8, 32, 136 Freawaru 120-21; [Hrothgar's daughter] see Hrothulf
freedom 15,119, 157 frog 23 funeral pyre 14, 149 G
goat 139, 149, 165; see zodiac signs God, god; see Ork, religion
gold-friend 49; see Hrothgar goldworker, the 35; see craftsmen Grendel
H hairless one, the 25-26 Halga the Good 111; see Hrothulf harper 40-41, see Shaper harper, the former 43 Hart 105; see Hrothgar, meadhall; [Heorot in Beowulf]
harvest 76, 77 harvest virgin 84, 90; see virgin, zodiac signs heart-sucking 80 Heathobards 121; see Ingeld Heaven 65, 91 hedgehogs 11 Hell 53, 64, 91, 162 Helmings 96, 104, 106, 109 Hengest 147; see Finn herbalist 143 Her-kapf 128 hero; see glory, Unferth
Hildeburh 147; see Finn Hoc, Hildeburh, Hnaef, Hengest 147; see Finn holy 92; see God, gods honor 35 hope 77 horses 23-27, 38-39, 95; colt 35 Hrothgar [king of the Scyldings]
Hrothulf 111, 157, 164 [nephew of Hrothgar]
hunter and hart 126-27; see zodiac signs Hygilac 154 [uncle of Beowulf] Hygmod 96, 105 [brother of Wealtheow]
I illusion; see art, lies, truth
importance 68 Ingeld 121 [king of the Heathobards]; see Freawaru J K
king; see Hrothgar
"Know thyself" 74 knowledge, knowing 63, 75; see Dragon L
lie, lies, lying; see art, illusion, truth
lizards 10 lizard tongues 14 logic 24; see syllogism love
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middle-earth 168 monistic 68 monster 72, 85, 123, 173
mor(t)ality 47 mother; see Grendel's mother, woman murder 49 mysteries 130, 172 N Nature 65, 94
nihilism 93 nonce-rules 71; see Devonian fish nothing 21-22, 74, 123; see meaninglessness O
ox 13, 37-38, 95 P
poetic 101 poetry 44, 87-88, 167; see art praying 13, 39, 72, 127, 149, 165 priest, the young 135-36, 138 priests 72, 127-29, 159, 165; see Ork, gods
pyre; see funeral pyre Q
R rabbits 8, 59-60 ram 5-6, 165; see zodiac signs rationalism 135 rats 9, 24, 32, 45, 86 ravens 36 reality 9, 88 reason 67, 100
religion 10, 125, 127-29; see dogmatism, God, gods, praying, priests, Ork reputation 83; see glory revenge 35, 148, 157 Revolution 117 riddle 127 roads 13, 39-40 roosters 12 S
shark-toothed 15, 52 sin 13 sine qua non 64 sky 7, 14, 18, 34, 132, 137, 153
snakes 22, 30, 31, 50, 54, 78, 97, 136; see venom, watersnakes, firesnakes
space; see Time and Space
Speardanes; see Danes spider 71, 103, 137 spiderwebs 64 spring, springtime 6-9, 31, 44 stags 11, 19; see Hart stars 9, 11, 37, 44, 102, 126, 130, 173; see zodiac signs state and violence; see Red Horse strangers
sun
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thanes
theory; see dogmatism, men
thinking; see Dragon, the
toads 31 torus 93 [a mathematical figure used to describe the queen]; see Cut A treasure-hoard 121-22
truth; see philosophical terminology, art, illusion, lies twelve 5, 12, 92; see zodiac signs twins 33, 44; see zodiac signs
V vassals' army 95-96 vengeance 15 [allusion to Romans 12.19] venom 35, 52, 64; see snakes violence 117-18, 157
void 61; see nothing vultures 13, 23 W
"Warovvish" 145, see language, Grendel's mother's wars 34-37, 39, 44, 150; see Grendel watchdogs 33, 41 watchmen 141 watersnakes, baby 7 Wealtheow 12, 164; see Hrothgar
weird 7 whale 152, 161 whalecocks 9 wheelwright 141 whispering; see language
will to power 115, 128 winged creatures 126 wings 12, 96, 126, 169; see birds winter 31, 92, 101, 105, 115, 125, 137, 148, 160 wolf/wolves 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 32, 40, 95, 125, 136 woman/women; see Grendel's mother, Wealtheow
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