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Beowulf ( / ˈbeɪəwʊlf /; [1] Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature.
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Jul 19, 2005 · Over sea, a day’s voyage off, Beowulf, of the Geats, nephew of Higelac, king of the Geats, hears of Grendel’s doings and of Hrothgar’s misery. He resolves to crush the fell monster and relieve the aged king. With fourteen chosen companions, he sets sail for Dane-land.
Jun 18, 2024 · Beowulf, heroic poem, the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European vernacular epic. The work deals with events of the early 6th century, and, while the date of its composition is uncertain, some scholars believe that it was written in the 8th century.
Beowulf is the oldest surviving long poem written in Old English. Written between the 8th and 11th centuries by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, this poem survived in a single manuscript that was badly damaged in the 1731 Cotton Library fire.
Beowulf.Theheroofthepoem.SprungfromthestockofGeats,sonofEcgtheow. BroughtupbyhismaternalgrandfatherHrethel,andfiguringinmanhoodasa devotedliegemanofhisuncleHigelac.
Oct 12, 2003 · Preface to the Project Gutenberg Edition of Beowulf. This text is a revised and corrected version of the fourth edition of Harrison and Sharp in its entirety. It comes in two basic versions. The base version (available in 8-bit (Latin-1) text and HTML) presents the original text as printed.
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Feb 17, 2001 · New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother.
Beowulf, son of Ecgtheow, answered: ‘Now, Unferth, my friend, drunk on beer, You’ve talked a lot about Breca, And told of his efforts. The truth is I had the greater sea-strength, Power in the waves, than any man, We had agreed when we were lads, And vowed – both being still as yet In our youth – that we would risk Our lives on the sea.
