Ludicrous, Monstrous and Incredible! Old English Cclassic Beowulf gets slapped with trigger warning

 Monstrous! Old English classic Beowulf gets slapped with trigger warning as university dons fear students may be distressed to read about monsters

Academics at Aberdeen University have slapped Beowulf with a trigger warning 

• They claim students may be distressed by the monsters in the Old English poem 
• The note warned about violence, coercion, animal cruelty, incest and suicide
• In addition, the guidance note warned students that ‘there will also be monsters’ 

• It's a staple of English literature courses, an Old English epic poem so dramatic it has even spawned a computer-animated action fantasy film.

  Yet academics have slapped a ‘trigger warning’ on Beowulf, cautioning students that they may read about ‘monsters’. 

  The University of Aberdeen believes that students reading Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Studies may be distressed by the saga. 

  The university has put more than 30 warnings on one module, entitled ‘Lost Gods and Hidden Monsters of the Celtic and Germanic Middle Ages’. 

  A note to students reads: ‘Texts studied on this course contain representations of violence, coercion, animal cruelty or animal death, incest, suicide, explicit sexual content... ableism.’ 

  In addition, students were warned that ‘there will also be monsters’. 

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