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NUMBER, COLOUR AND ANIMAL MYSTICISIM IN BEOWULF AND THE BOOK OF DEDEM KORKUT

NUMBER, COLOUR AND ANIMAL MYSTICISIM IN BEOWULF AND THE BOOK OF DEDEM KORKUT

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  • Turkish Studies

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  • 2008
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.259

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Abstract (2. Language): 
There are both similiarities and differences in the use of numbers, colours and the animal images in Beowulf and The Book of Dedem Korkut. It is not known how the numbers, colours, and the animal images came into being, but they are used by the respective societies. Number, colour and animal mysticism was influenced by the pre-Christian and pre-Islamic legends, myths, and sagas both in Beowulf and The Book of Dedem Korkut, and it may be emphasized that this tradition continued even after conversion to Christianity and Islam. In this article the significance of numbers such as three, nine, forty and fifty; the colours such as black, white, red, yellow; and the animal images such as wolf, deer, raven, camel and pigeon will be studied by pointing out the similarities and the differences in Beowulf and The Book of Dedem Korkut.
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Abstract (Original Language): 
Beowulf ve Dedem Korkut Hikayelerinde sayıların renklerin ve hayvan imajlarının benzerlikleri olduğu kadar farklılıkları da vardır. Kullanıldığı topluma göre önem kazanan sayılar, renkler ve hayvan imajlarının nasıl ortaya çıktığına dair kesin yargılara ulaşmak oldukça zordur. Ancak Beowulf ve Dedem Korkut Hikayeleri, Hıristiyanlık ve İslamiyet öncesinde sözlü edebiyattan yazılı edebiyata geçiş sürecinde ortaya çıkan efsane ve mitler Hıristiyanlık ve İslamiyet'e geçiş sonrasında da önemini yitirmemiştir. Bu makalede iki destanda benzerlik ve farklılık gösteren üç, dokuz, kırk ve elli sayıları; kara, ak, kızıl, al, sarı renkleri; kurt, geyik, karga, deve ve güvercin hayvan imajları inanç sistemleri açısından incelenecektir.
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1 In this article Seamus Heaney's Beowulf (Norton &Company, New York 2003) translation into modern English has been used and further qutations are from this translation
2 In this article the qutations are from The Book of Dedem Korkut (Sümer, Faruk, Ahmet Uysal and Warren Walker trans and ed... Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991)
3 The modern Turkish version of Kumis is "kımız". It is made of fermented mare's milk and a traditional drink of all Turkish speaking peoples as well as of others in parts of Central Asia. The Oğuz people, for some reason or other, discontinued the custom of drinking kımız after they reached Anatolia.
4 The flags of Turkish rulers were usually white.
5 It is a famous northern pagan legend of Odin; which is considered to be the origin of the Beowulf epic.
6 The mighty tree is called Igdrasil (Yygdrasil), at the roots of the world tree there are nine worlds of Niflhel "dark hell"-where the dead men dwell.
7 After Hygelac was killed in the raid on Frisia, his son Heardred became king of the Geats.The Swedish ( Shylfing ) king Onela later invades and kills Heardred, after which Beowulf becomes
king.

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