Re: [LoGH] The Great Debate - Beowulf vs. Werewolf
Josh Yuan (jjyuan@yahoo.com)
Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:36:48 -0700 (PDT)
Now that we are back to the ships. Is there any plans
for a technical Ship section like linkclub's, for the
gearheads in all of us?
--Josh
--- Lee Thompson wrote:
> Being the horribly nitpicky person I am, I am indeed
> opening up this debate
> again.
>
> The author of Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu (LoGH) was most
> assuredly - be it
> professionally, as a hobby or merely points of
> interest - a history/mythology
> buff. Virtually (and probably all) names and
> places in LoGH have a
> reference to a historical event, personage or some
> kind of literature.
>
> Although some references to Wolfgang Mittermeyer's
> ship are indeed the kanji
> symbols for "werewolf" or "person wolf" I believe
> this is merely a context for
> the Japanese so they don't mistake the katakana for
> another name or loanword.
> In fact, I think this shows that the Beowulf
> reference is an *important* one.
>
>
> The following text is from Linkclub's LoGH site,
> more or less, the Japanese
> equivalent of the infocenter. Here is a rough
> (machine) translation. Words
> in (* *) are katakana representations. There is a
> mistake on the site in the
> katakana for the ship, but the correct one is used
> in the origin section.
>
>
> START
>
> Beiowolf
> (*beiouruf*) (person wolf)
>
> (*mittahmaiyah*) fleet flagship. The promotion
> division is reinforced and it
> is possible to high-speed sail though a basic design
> draws the flow of a
> martial empire standard battleship. On the other
> hand, the number of ports of
> prow main armaments has decreased because the output
> of the generator is eaten
> in the promotion division. This warship is a
> straight line silhouette though
> Tristram is sisters warship. [It] fights, and the
> warship of unknown word)
> pulled out, and the warship of a strong fate as the
> bounce and [it] breaks and
> (unknown word) and sinking escape the inside in
> (*amurittsa*) battle and
> "Fight of the corridor" of the (*amurittsa*) battle,
> the (*rippushutat*)
> campaign, the (*rantemario*) star region battle, and
> the (*maru*) (*adetta*)
> star region battle.
>
>
> Origin of warship name
>
> 'Beowulf' is an epic of old literary maximum Great
> Britain. The monster named
> grain Dell had ruined the court of (*dene*)
> (Denmark) in the old times. ***
> Knights of (*dene*) of , are captured and
> eaten as grain Dell sneaks
> in to the palace every night. The person who lived
> was finally gone to the
> palace, and king was bewailing it for a long time.
> [It] came to (*dene*)
> knighted about (unknown word) matchless, that is,
> Beowulf going down to the
> country of (*geiatas*) in the other side of the sea,
> and hearing the story of
> grain Dell. He grappled with grain Dell which
> appeared in the palace at
> midnight, and knocked this down. Another monster
> showed up and people were
> attacked on the ?(unknown word) evening though
> people returned to the palace
> with pleasure, and at ease. This monster was a
> mother of grain Dell, and [it]
> came to the revenge of the child. Then, Beowulf went
> to the marsh where the
> monster lived, and knocked this down finally. King
> of (*dene*) was very
> pleased, gave him a lot of treasures, and Beowulf
> returned to the country.
> After that, Beowulf was (unknown word) of
> (*geiatas*) 50 years later. The
> dragon which vomited the fire when certain appeared,
> and the country was
> attacked. Beowulf hit the flame of the poison by
> which the dragon vomited the
> dragon and I in dragon's cave though the fight was
> killed and received the
> death finally.
>
> END
>
> It is my view that 'werewolf' is simply a clue in
> for the reference of
> literature.
>
>
>
> Web Bibilography:
>
> http://www.linkclub.or.jp/~suno/ship/Beiowolf.html
> http://www.uky.edu/~kiernan/eBeowulf/guide.htm
> --
> Lee Thompson
> shadow@nwlink.com
> ICQ: 19508091
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