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- call the anonymous author the "Beowulf poet". The story is set in pagan Scandinavia in the 5th and 6th centuries. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to...96 KB (10,932 words) - 21:29, 5 August 2024
- Germanic tradition, the Beowulf poet was the first to combine features and present a distinctive fire-breathing dragon. The Beowulf dragon was adapted for...24 KB (3,067 words) - 12:08, 13 May 2024
- fighting the dragon. The work has been praised by critics including the poet and Beowulf translator Seamus Heaney. Michael D. C. Drout called it the most important...33 KB (4,229 words) - 12:06, 24 August 2024
- Beowulf (/ˈbeɪəwʊlf/; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is a legendary Geatish hero in the eponymous epic poem, one of the oldest surviving pieces of...11 KB (1,364 words) - 11:58, 12 July 2024
- is impossible to use all the same effects in the same places as the Beowulf poet did, but it is feasible, though difficult, to give something of the feeling...46 KB (3,841 words) - 19:24, 19 July 2024
- Grendel's mother (redirect from Grendel's Mother (Beowulf))poem Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD), the other two being Grendel and the dragon. Each antagonist reflects different negative aspects of both the hero Beowulf and...22 KB (2,798 words) - 07:43, 16 August 2024
- Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (also known as Heaneywulf) is a verse translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into modern English by the Irish...26 KB (2,950 words) - 19:21, 26 August 2023
- fantasy author and professional philologist, drew on the Old English poem Beowulf for multiple aspects of his Middle-earth legendarium, alongside other influences...38 KB (3,702 words) - 19:25, 19 July 2024
- "On Translating Beowulf" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the difficulties faced by anyone attempting to translate the Old English heroic-elegiac...26 KB (3,497 words) - 23:50, 19 July 2024
- Mordor (section Grendel's wilderness in Beowulf)realistic descriptions of nature. At the same time, they write, both the Beowulf poet and Tolkien incorporate "an element of fantasy": Grendel's moor is both...41 KB (4,696 words) - 20:13, 16 August 2024
- Heremod (section From Beowulf)of Sceafa, as noted all lineages referenced on the Sceafa wiki. The Beowulf poet may have followed the same tradition, knowing a tale in which in the...6 KB (937 words) - 15:04, 14 April 2024
- Grendel (category Characters in Beowulf)Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (700–1000 CE). He is one of the poem's three antagonists (along with his mother and the dragon)...17 KB (1,932 words) - 23:09, 16 August 2024
- Brísingamen (section Beowulf)He gained the hatred Of Eormanric the Goth, chose eternal reward. The Beowulf poet is clearly referring to the legends about Theoderic the Great. The Þiðrekssaga...13 KB (1,711 words) - 01:04, 10 June 2024
- text Beowulf, since the Liber also mentions King Hygelac of the Geats and that he was renowned for his large size. Some scholars argue that the Beowulf-poet...2 KB (271 words) - 12:28, 8 April 2024
- Old English literature (section Poets)comparative rarity of similes. Beowulf contains at best five similes, and these are of the short variety. The Old English poet was particularly fond of describing...68 KB (8,015 words) - 11:51, 20 August 2024
- of Beowulf, one of the best-known Old English heroic epic poems. Beowulf has been translated many times in verse and in prose. By 2020, the Beowulf's Afterlives...23 KB (693 words) - 19:24, 19 July 2024
- Battle of Finnsburg (category Beowulf)events that follow after the story found in the Finnesburg Fragment. The Beowulf poet, however, makes his scop give the account in an extremely compact and...26 KB (3,465 words) - 21:10, 10 August 2024
- gone by, was also a defence of his own writings, where he followed the Beowulf poet in deliberately seeking to create an impression of depth. He did this...13 KB (1,044 words) - 15:50, 16 August 2024
- Healfdene (category Characters in Beowulf)is an old one, it might be that the Beowulf poet knew that tale and that Heorogar (Healfdene's eldest son in Beowulf) was imagined Heorogar to have died...9 KB (1,111 words) - 19:21, 19 November 2023
- titles, see Beowulf. 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 Beowulf by Henry Bradley 17315321911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 — BeowulfHenry Bradley
- liquor; meanwhile the poet sang serene in Heorot, there was joy of heroes, no little pomp of Danes and Westerns. Anonymous (c. 1000) Beowulf: A Translation of
- Probably the most famous poem from Old English in modern times is the epic Beowulf, which is actually set in Scandinavia. It is most commonly thought that