Chapter 1-resumé af Hyperion

Hvad sker der?

1. The narrator introduces the question of what makes a hero through literary examples and contrasting images of church bells.
2. Paul Flemming loses his youthful companion and goes abroad because familiar people and places deepen his grief.
3. After months of solitary travel, he follows the Rhine toward southern Germany, revisiting scenery he knows from happier days.
4. Before dawn at Rolandseck, he ignores the landscape and cries out against the painful presence of the past.
5. Remembering others’ suffering quiets him, and the riverside ruins bring old legends to mind as the sun rises.

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