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Beowulf the Boaster

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Parody or Humor
    Game (Board Game or Game Book)
     
    Language(s)
    English
  • Author
    Fetter-Vorm, Jonathan
    Artist
    Biby, Tom
    Artist
    Fetter-Vorm, Jonathan
  • Contained in
    The Two Fine Chaps Official Fan Club Fun Pack
    Location Details
    Page [6]
    City
    Menlo Park, CA
    Publisher
    Two Fine Chaps
    Date
    2008
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  • Descriptive Notes

    Saddle-stapled booklet is 12 pp. (unnumbered) with illustrations. "Beowulf the Boaster" is a fill-in-the-word game, in the style of Mad Libs, reproducing Beowulf's reply to the Coast Guard from p. [11] of Fetter-Vorm and Biby's graphic novel but with some words replaced with blanks and cues for the type of word that should be supplied. The instructions given beneath the title say "Help our Geat chief unlock his word-hord." The text of Beowulf's speech is inside a comics-style speech bubble above a picture of him from p. [18] of the graphic novel (where it appears during the scene of confrontation with Unferth). The booklet's front cover also reproduces an image of the Coast Guard from p. [10] of the graphic novel.

    The text begins:

    We are Geats, who _[verb]_ the _[noun]_ with Hygelac. My father was the well-known _[noun]_ Edgeþeow; he lived to see many winters before he left to the ancient rest; and all wise _[noun]_ across the earth _[adverb]_remember him.

    And ends:

    I can help the good man _[verb]_ this fiend, if any relief can come from sorrow's surges. Otherwise he must remain in _[emotional state]_ and _[verb]_ distress, as long as his house, the best of halls, stands high.

     
    Authentication

    BAM, from digital images of copy held at Stanford University (provided by Jonathan Quick).

  • Last Updated
    03/29/2022