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In naming his character, Tolkien used beorn, an Old English word for "man" and "warrior" (with implications of "freeman" and "nobleman" in Anglo-Saxon society). [2] The name is cognate with the Scandinavian Björn or Bjørn, meaning bear ; and the figure of Beorn can be related to the traditional Northern heroes Bödvar Bjarki and Beowulf ...
The werebear Beorn in The Hobbit has been likened to the hero Beowulf himself; both names mean "bear" and both characters have enormous strength. Scholars have compared some of Tolkien's monsters to those in Beowulf. Both his trolls and Gollum share attributes with Grendel, while Smaug's characteristics closely match those of the Beowulf dragon.
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The Bible is a collection of canonical sacred texts of Judaism and Christianity.Different religious groups include different books within their canons, in different orders, and sometimes divide or combine books, or incorporate additional material into canonical books.
English: The Literal Standard Version is a complete, formal equivalence, idiomatically-literal English translation of The Holy Bible based on the Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and Dead Sea Scrolls in the Old Testament and the Textus Receptus and Majority Text in the New Testament.
Bödvar Bjarki (Old Norse: Bǫðvarr Bjarki [ˈbɔðˌvɑrː ˈbjɑrki]), meaning 'Warlike Little-Bear', [1] is the hero appearing in tales of Hrólfr Kraki in the Hrólfs saga kraka, in the Latin epitome to the lost Skjöldunga saga, and as Biarco in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. [2] He is often depicted with the ability to shapeshift into ...
In idiomatic English, "the powers that be" is a phrase used to refer to those individuals or groups who collectively hold authority over a particular domain. [1] Within this phrase, the word be is an archaic variant of are rather than a subjunctive be .
This page includes a list of biblical proper names that start with B in English transcription. Some of the names are given with a proposed etymological meaning. For further information on the names included on the list, the reader may consult the sources listed below in the References and External Links.