Beowulf Definition–noun | 1. | (italics ) an English alliterative epic poem, probably written in the early 8th century a.d. | | 2. | the hero of this poem. | |
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heroic poem, the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European vernacular epic. Preserved in a single manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A XV) from c. 1000, it deals with events ...
English literature
The term elegy is used of Old English poems that lament the loss of worldly goods, glory, or human companionship. The Wanderer is narrated by a man, deprived of lord and kinsmen, whose journeys lead ...
English literature
Most Old English poetry is preserved in four manuscripts of the late 10th and early 11th centuries. The Beowulf manuscript (British Library) contains Beowulf, Judith, and three prose tracts; the ...
Brink, Bernhard ten
scholar whose research stimulated a revival of British and German study of Geoffrey Chaucer's works.Icelandic literature
The fantastic element was further developed in the fornaldarsogur, literally "sagas of antiquity," whose heroes were supposed to have lived in Scandinavia and Germany before Iceland was settled. The ...
Sweden
At the beginning of this period a number of independent tribes were settled in what is now Sweden, and their districts are still partly indicated by the present divisions of the country. The Swedes ...
epic
A typical Heroic Age occurred during the wanderings of the Germanic tribes from the 3rd to the 6th centuries AD. Out of this, too, came a rich oral tradition, from which developed in the Middle Ages ...
Costa Book Award
any of a series of literary awards given to writers resident in the United Kingdom and Ireland for books published there in the previous year. Established in 1971 and initially sponsored by the ...
Offa
continental Anglian ruler from whom the royal house of Anglo-Saxon Mercia claimed descent.orc
a mythical creature (such as a sea monster, a giant, or an ogre) of horrid form or aspect. |
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