Nothing in all this is autobiographical: unlike the poets of Deor and Widsith, the poet of Beowulf is not concerned with his own identity ; ;

Since none of these glimpses of poetizing without writing is intended to incorporate a signature into the epic matter, there is prima-facie evidence that Beowulf and the Homeric poems each derive from an oral tradition.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

W. F. Bryan suggests that certain kennings in Beowulf were selected sometimes for appropriateness and sometimes for ironic inappropriateness, but such a view would appear untenable unless it is denied that the language of Beowulf is formulaic.

It is false to be certain of having discovered in the language of Beowulf such effects as intentional irony.

The ratio is thoroughly remarkable, because the lines are so long -- half again as long as those of Beowulf.

Beowulf (; in Old English or ) is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.

After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated.

After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle.

The main protagonist, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the aid of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose great hall, Heorot, is plagued by the monster Grendel.

Later in his life, Beowulf is himself king of the Geats, and finds his realm terrorised by a dragon whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound.

Beowulf finally slays the dragon, but is mortally wounded.

Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

Beowulf is challenged by a Danish coast guard, Evelyn Paul ( 1911 ). Beowulf begins with the story of King Hroðgar, who constructed the great hall Heorot for his people.

Beowulf prepares himself for battle ; he is presented with a sword, Hrunting, by Unferth, a warrior who had doubted him and wishes to make amends.

However, she is unable to harm Beowulf through his armour and drags him to the bottom of the lake.

Beowulf decides to follow the dragon into its lair, at Earnanæs, but only his young Swedish relative Wiglaf dares join him along with Tinshaw.

This hilt is the only treasure that Beowulf carries out of cavern, which he presents to Hroðgar upon his return to Heorot.

In any case, the necklace given to Beowulf in the story is not the Brísingamen itself ; it is only being compared to it.

A Beowulf cluster is scalable to a nearly unlimited number of computers, limited only by the overhead of the network.

Widsith only mentions Hrothgar, Heorot, his nephew Hroðulf and their enemy Ingeld, but can complete Beowulf in some cases where Beowulf does not give enough information.

Many manuscripts had become brittle and fragile, including the codex that contains the only known copy of Beowulf ( Cotton Vittelius A xv ).

Lord studied not only field recordings of Serbian heroic epics sung to the gusle, and the Homeric epics, but also Beowulf, Gilgamesh, The Song of Roland, and the Anglo-Scottish Child Ballads.

The only existing copy of the poem follows the Beowulf manuscript.

After some time, when Aðils owed Hrólfr not only the gold he had taken from Helgi during the battle, but also tribute for his help fighting king Áli ( i. e. Onela of Beowulf ) in the Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern, Hrólfr arrived at Uppsala to gather his tribute.

In the Old English poem Beowulf the name of Ohthere only appears in constructions referring to his father Ongenþeow ( fæder Ohtheres ), mother ( Onelan modor and Ohtheres ), and his sons Eadgils ( suna Ohteres, sunu Ohteres ) and Eanmund ( suna Ohteres ).

Unlike his relatives, Eanmund is only mentioned in Beowulf.

When Beowulf damages his sword wounding the dragon and is burned by the dragon's fire, Wiglaf is the only man of Beowulf's band to overcome his fear of the dragon.

Several well-known works, such as Beowulf, the poem Pearl, and the Lindisfarne Gospels, survive today only because of Sir Robert's library.

The castle is destroyed, with Beowulf and Kyra the only survivors.

The Long Shot — the ship flown to the galactic core by Beowulf Shaeffer in the short story At the Core and flown to the Pierson's Puppeteers ' fleet of worlds by Louis Wu, Speaker to Animals, Teela Brown, and Nessus in Ringworld — is built inside a # 4 General Products hull, most of which is filled with the advanced " quantum II " hyperdrive leaving only a small two-chamber living area.

In this sense, Ents are probably the most ubiquitous of all creatures in fantasy and folklore, perhaps second only to dragons ; for the word can refer to a variety of large, roughly humanoid creatures, such as giants, trolls, orcs, or even the monster Grendel from the poem Beowulf.

Shortly thereafter, Wiglaf, the new king, gives Beowulf a Norse funeral and watches on the shore as the hero's body is taken by the sea, only to then witness Grendel's mother give a final kiss to Beowulf.

The only surviving Anglo-Saxon epic poem is the story of Beowulf, known only from a surviving manuscript that was written down by a Christian monk sometime between the eighth and eleventh centuries AD.

Limited to a few thousand lines of heroic verse in Anglo-Saxon as in the other Germanic dialects, we cannot say how frequently the kennings in Beowulf recurred in contemporary epic on the same soil.

M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt assert in their introduction to Beowulf in the Norton Anthology of English Literature that, " The poet was reviving the heroic language, style, and pagan world of ancient Germanic oral poetry it is now widely believed that Beowulf is the work of a single poet who was a Christian and that his poem reflects well-established Christian tradition.

Dragons that act as draugar appear in Beowulf as well as in some of the heroic lays of the Poetic Edda ( in the form of Fafnir ).

Tolkien identified in his 1936 lecture " Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics " a " Northern ' theory of courage '"— the heroic or " virtuous pagan " insistence to do the right thing even in the face of certain defeat without promise of reward or salvation:

The initial section uses alliteration instead of rhyme, like much Old English heroic poetry ( e. g., Beowulf ): " Finally pounds of pancakes paired with lingonberries.

Beowulf is an Old English heroic poem where the hero ( Beowulf ) engages in battles with antagonists.

In Old English poetry, especially Beowulf, feasts could be instrumental occasions to bind the community, secure the loyalty of warriors and to bolster their determination to perform heroic deeds.

When one contrasts it to the popular heroic poem, such as Beowulf, one finds that they share certain common features.

It has even been proposed that Beowulf and Hrólf Kraki's story are two versions of the same original Germanic heroic epic.

As far as we can tell from what has been preserved, the art of the scop was directed mostly towards epic poetry ; the surviving verse in Old English consists of the epic Beowulf, religious verse in epic formats such as the Dream of the Rood, heroic lays of battle, and stern meditations on mortality and the transience of earthly glory.

It is found in the same manuscript as the heroic poem Beowulf, the Nowell Codex, dated ca.

Similar to Beowulf, Judith conveys a moral tale of heroic triumph over monstrous beings.

Exodus is not a paraphrase of the biblical book, but rather a retelling of the story of the Israelites ' Flight from Egypt and the Crossing of the Red Sea in the manner of a " heroic epic ", much like Old English poems Andreas, Judith, or even the non-religious Beowulf.

Beowulf, probably written between 650 and 750, is typical of these poems, portraying a vivid, heroic tale, ending with the protagonist's death at the hands of a dragon, but still showing signs of the new Christian influences in England.

J. R. R. Tolkien in his essay, ' Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics ' argues that Beowulf is a heroic elegy.

* The Dragon ( Beowulf ), one of the main antagonists in Beowulf, an Old English heroic epic poem

Sam Newton has proposed that the Old English heroic poem Beowulf has its origins in Ælfwald's East Anglia.

" 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.