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  2. Beowulf - Wikipedia

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    Beowulf at Wikisource. 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. The date of composition is a matter of contention ...

  3. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary - Wikipedia

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    Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary is a prose translation of the early medieval epic poem Beowulf from Old English to modern English. Translated by J. R. R. Tolkien from 1920 to 1926, it was edited by Tolkien's son Christopher and published posthumously in May 2014 by HarperCollins. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia ...

  4. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation - Wikipedia

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    256. ISBN. 978-0374111199. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (also known as Heaneywulf[1]) is a verse translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into modern English by the Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. It was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and Faber and Faber, and won that year's Whitbread Book of the Year Award.

  5. List of adaptations of Beowulf - Wikipedia

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    1966: in The Green Man, a novel by Henry Treece, Beowulf is a minor character, who travels with his own bard, who is making the story about him. 1968: Beowulf: A New Telling, an adaptation for children by Robert Nye. 1971: Grendel, The Beowulf story is retold from Grendel 's point of view in this novel by John Gardner.

  6. Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics - Wikipedia

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    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. It was first published as a paper in the Proceedings of the British Academy, and has since been reprinted in many collections.

  7. Beowulf (hero) - Wikipedia

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    Hrethel (maternal grandfather), Hygelac (maternal uncle, fl. 515) Nationality. Geatish. Beowulf (/ ˈbeɪəwʊlf /; [1][2] Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is a legendary Geatish hero in the eponymous epic poem, one of the oldest surviving pieces of English literature.

  8. List of translations of Beowulf - Wikipedia

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    Beowulf. This is a list of translations 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 Bibliographic Database listed some 688 translations and other versions of the poem, from Thorkelin's 1787 transcription of the text, and in at ...

  9. The dragon (Beowulf) - Wikipedia

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    The dragon (. Beowulf. ) Beowulf battles his nemesis, the dragon, shown in a 1908 illustration by J. R. Skelton. The final act of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf includes Beowulf 's fight with a dragon, the third monster he encounters in the epic. On his return from Heorot, where he killed Grendel and Grendel's mother, Beowulf becomes king of the ...