115: Heroic, not manic, Mondays

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

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The words for today are: Volatile, Affected, Qualified, Effigy

Featuring a quote from Beowulf (unknown author!)

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0:00.0	Hi there, welcome to episode 115, yes, is 115 of the Victor Prep Vocab podcast, and
0:11.6	I have a quote for you today from Beowulf, and I thought we needed some kind of traditional
0:18.6	heroism to get us through a Monday. I like this quote because I find it kind of inspirational,
0:26.3	and actually in the story, the context of the quote is quite funny. And I think that most
0:32.6	people when thinking about a book like Beowulf, which for those who don't know, is it's
0:37.5	an old English poem written somewhere between 975 and the year 1000, something like that,
0:46.3	anyway. And when thinking about some old English poem, you might not think it could be funny,
0:53.2	well, all perhaps even inspirational, but I think it can be both. And so I'm going to give you a
0:59.2	bit of context and then give you this quote. So just quickly on Beowulf, it's a story about a hero
1:06.4	called Beowulf and his people, the Yeats. And it covers some of the history of the Yeats people,
1:13.8	but also the three monsters that Beowulf killed. And that's really the story. It's about
1:21.7	Beowulf in his life, these particular three monsters that he kills. And what happened after?
1:27.6	So this part of the story, which is roughly, it's not so far in the story, Beowulf has just
1:34.0	killed the monster Grendel. Sorry if this is spoiling, but this is a very old book now. And I
1:40.3	don't think it's hard to spoil it. But he's killed the monster Grendel. They've all had a big
1:47.0	party in celebration in Herthga's hall of Herot. Everyone goes to bed. And then Grendel's mother,
1:54.9	who's also a monster, comes to have her revenge. And so she ends up kidnapping and killing the
2:02.9	King's best friend, this man called Ashera. And then she gets away. So throughout all this Beowulf
2:10.5	has been asleep. And he gets up in the morning and is summoned to see Herthga. And he
2:16.8	shows up. And he doesn't really know what's been going on. And he asks Herthga, basically,
2:24.3	oh, he had a nice night through the car, which makes me laugh because looking at it, you can see
2:31.0	this is probably quite tactless on Beowulf's part. Because Herthga then explains what happened and
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