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the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon
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Beowulf
- Beowulf (; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowulf]) is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.
Beowulf (2007 film)
- Beowulf is a 2007 British-American 3D adult motion capture computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary and based on the Old En
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
- "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" was a 1936 lecture given by J. R. R. Tolkien on literary criticism on the Old English heroic epic poem Beowulf.
Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands
- Beowulf is a British epic fantasy drama television series broadcast by ITV. It was created by James Dormer, Tim Haines and Katie Newman.
Beowulf (hero)
- Beowulf (; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowulf]) is a legendary Geatish hero in the epic poem named after him, one of the oldest surviving pieces of literature in the English language.
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In the disastrous invasion of the land of the Hetware, in which Hygelac was killed, Beowulf killed many of the enemy, amongst them a chieftain of the Hugas, named Daghrefn, apparently the slayer of Hygelac. In the retreat he once more displayed his powers as a swimmer, carrying to his ship the armou
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The water-demon Grendel and the dragon (probably), by whom Beowulf is mortally wounded, have been supposed to represent the powers of autumn and darkness, the floods which at certain seasons overflow the low-lying countries on the coast of the North Sea and sweep away all human habitations; Beowulf
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Of the latter the number has tended to diminish in the light of modern scholarship. The fashion during the 19th century set strongly in the other direction, and the degraded gods theory was applied not only to such conspicuous heroes as Siegfried, Dietrich and Beowulf, but to a host of minor cha
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In form all these poems belong to two or three classes: - kvioa, an epic cantilena ; tal, a genealogical poem; drapa, songs of praise, &c., written in modifications of the old Teutonic metre which we know in Beowulf; galdr and lokkr, spell and charm songs in a more lyric measure; and mal, a dialo
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‘Beowulf’ is bloody, canonical, and long — and one person wrote it, scholars say
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