{"id":632,"date":"2006-03-13T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2006-03-13T14:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T14:47:00","slug":"632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

What? We gardeners?*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jason Pitzl-Waters has new links to the re-paganized movie of Beowulf and Grendel<\/em><\/a>, previously mentioned here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As the director points out, the story is a direct ancestor of the classic Westerns like Shane<\/em><\/a> or The Magnificent Seven<\/em><\/a>: a lone hero or group of companions who ride into town, defeat evil, and ride (or sail) off into the sunset. <\/p>\n

*<\/strong> The headline is a joke from the aptly named Professor Harper’s Old English class at Reed College, which in turn is tied in memory to this strange episode<\/a>, which led to my blowing a question on a quiz (taken while I was still temporally discombobulated) involving the verb wealdan<\/em>. All of this in geardagum<\/em> of course.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I will want to see this movie.<\/p>\n

Tags: Pagan movies<\/a>, Beowulf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What? We gardeners?* Jason Pitzl-Waters has new links to the re-paganized movie of Beowulf and Grendel, previously mentioned here. As the director points out, the story is a direct ancestor of the classic Westerns like Shane or The Magnificent Seven: a lone hero or group of companions who ride into town, defeat evil, and ride […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-632","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9306,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=9306","url_meta":{"origin":632,"position":0},"title":"Approaching Salem","author":"Chas S. 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