The four funerals in Beowulf

Part 1 The four funerals: the first funeral - Scyld Scefing's ship of death; the second funeral - the cremation of Hildeburg's kin; the third funeral - the Last Survivor's lament; the fourth funeral - "Beowulf's" complex obesequies; classicizing the past. Part 2 The funerals and the structure of the poem: rings and fitts; the funerals and elliptical structures I - the inner funerals as frames; the funerals and elliptical structures II - the outer structures; the funerals and elliptical structures III - the funerals as centres, a concluding note on elliptical structures; three movements and a coda, "Beowulf's" feminist middle, elements and seasons.