http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/old-english Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:30:06 -0400 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:30:06 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1694/reevaluating-the-role-of-women-in-beowulf By Catori Sarmiento - This essay explores the roles of women in Beowulf in a contextual assessment. It is often an incorrect assumption that women within Beowulf and Anglo-Saxon culture are subservient to a patriarchal culture that places little to no value on them. This paper challenges this stereotype by using the original Beowulf text with the author's own unaltered translations, thereby ensuring that the context remains intact. By limiting the influence of a modern translation, this essay avoids stripping the poem of its Anglo-Saxon verbiage, inflection, power, and meaning. Doing so allows a return to the original... Sun, 30 Sep 2012 12:54 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1694/reevaluating-the-role-of-women-in-beowulf