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Bookmark or Share- Beowulf Full Text and Analysis - Owl EyesBeowulf 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 (trans. by Francis B. Gummere) | The Poetry Foundationson of Scyld, in the Scandian lands. shall an earl have honor in every clan. sturdy Scyld to the shelter of God. the leader beloved who long had ruled.... by the mast the mighty one. Many a treasure. fetched from far was freighted with him. far o’er the flood with him floating away. sole on the seas, a suckling child. gave him to ocean.
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- Beowulf | Summary, Poem, Characters, Monster, Analysis, & Facts ...Beowulf is a heroic poem, considered the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European vernacular epic. It deals with events of the early 6th century CE and is believed to have been composed between 700 and 750.
- Beowulf - World History EncyclopediaBeowulf is an epic poem composed in Old English consisting of 3,182 lines. It is written in the alliterative verse style, which is common for Old English poetry as well as works written in languages such as Old High German, Old Saxon, and Old Norse. Beowulf is considered one of the oldest surviving poems in the English language.
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