The Beowulf manuscript itself is mentioned in name for the first time in a letter in 1700 between George Hickes, Wanley ’ s assistant, and Wanley.

The name also appears in Beowulf as Hrēðrīk.

The name Beowulf originally referred to a specific computer built in 1994 by Thomas Sterling and Donald Becker at NASA.

Scholars have proposed that Sif's hair may represent fields of golden wheat, that she may be associated with fertility, family, wedlock and / or that she is connected to rowan, and that there may be an allusion to her role or possibly her name in the Old English poem Beowulf.

The name is likely to be an allusion to Grendel from Beowulf.

It is generally agreed that these were the same as the Geatas, the people of the hero Beowulf in England's national epic by the same name.

Fróði (; ; Middle High German: Vruote ) is the name of a number of legendary Danish kings in various texts including Beowulf, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and his Ynglinga saga, Saxo Grammaticus ' Gesta Danorum, and the Grottasöngr.

Weland had fashioned the mail shirt worn by Beowulf according to lines 450 – 455 of the epic poem of the same name:

* Ravenswood, the name of a Swedish forest in Beowulf, the setting of a battle between Geats and Swedes

Several translators ( e. g. Burton Raffel ) and scholars have emended her name from a corrupt line ( 62 ) in the manuscript of Beowulf, although this is guesswork.

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 ).

After its final dissociation from the national in 1985, the fraternity chose the name Chi Heorot, derived from the medieval poem Beowulf.

* Beowulf ( son of Ecgþeow and the hero of the epic by his name )

The Wulfing navy on the move, an illustration from the poems on the Wulfing Helgi HundingsbaneThe Wulfings, Wylfings or Ylfings ( the name means the " wolf clan ") was a powerful clan in Beowulf, Widsith and in the Norse sagas.

While the poet of Beowulf does not locate the Wulfings geographically, Scandinavian sources define the Ylfings ( the Old Norse form of the name ) as the ruling clan of the Eastern Geats.

A number of origins have been proposed for the name Beowulf.

Henry Sweet, a philologist and early linguist specializing in Germanic languages, proposed that the name Beowulf literally means in Old English " bee-wolf " or " bee-hunter " and that it is a kenning for " bear ".

Ohthere is associated with the person of that same name in the epic Beowulf.

Their name derives from an Old English word meaning ' wealth ', which has been applied to these coins since the seventeenth century, based on interpretations of the law-code of King Ethelbert of Kent and Beowulf.

Connections have been proposed between the figure of Beowa and the hero Beowulf of the poem of the same name and English folk song figure John Barleycorn.

Old Norse persons with the name Halfdan (" half Dane ") ( Old Norse sources ) or Healfdene ( Beowulf ) or Haldan ( Danish Latin sources ) were probably kings.

He is named after the legendary Beowulf of the epic of the same name, but ironically is in love with a dragon, whereas his namesake was killed by one.

The name does appear in Ynglingatal, Norse sagas, and Beowulf as belonging to a Swedish king during the sixth century named Eadgils.

You wonder about the Christmas card with no name on it, and it comes to you that maybe it would have been better to have made somebody else happy if you couldn't be happy yourself, to give somebody else the one they wanted -- to give them you.

The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means " earth pig " or " ground pig " ( aarde earth / ground, varken pig ), because of its burrowing habits ( similar origin to the name groundhog ).

The scientific name of the aardvark comes from Greek ορυκτερόπους ( orykterópous ) meaning " digging footed " and afer: from Africa.

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ", comparable to the Latin terms " Levant " or " Orient " ( and words for " east " in other languages ).

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ".

The name atom comes from the Greek ἄτομος ( atomos, " indivisible ") from ἀ-( a -, " not ") and τέμνω ( temnō, " I cut "), which means uncuttable, or indivisible, something that cannot be divided further.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

The specific name comes from the Afar word for " basal family ancestor ".

The name algebraic integer comes from the fact that the only rational numbers which are algebraic integers are the integers, and because the algebraic integers in any number field are in many ways analogous to the integers.

The name probably means " she who ( comes ) at dusk ," which would identify Aphrodite in her personification as the evening star, a significant parallel she shares with Mesopotamian Ishtar.

The name comes from the Ancient Greek ἀ a-(" not ") and μέθυστος methustos (" intoxicated "), a reference to the belief that the stone protected its owner from drunkenness.

The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".

Thucydides claims the name comes from the fact that the Strymon flows " around the city " on two sides ;< ref >

It comes, along with the name of the River Aar ( which was called Arula, Arola, and Araris in early times ), from the German Au, meaning floodplain.

The name was one of the titles (" epithets ") given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean " one who comes to save warriors ".

The name " Aleut " comes from the Aleut word allíthuh, meaning " community.

* The traditional name Alioth comes from the Arabic alyat ( fat tail of a sheep ).

The name of Achduart comes from the Gaelic for " the field at the black headland ".

The word " agar " comes from agar-agar, the Malay name for red algae ( Gigartina, Gracilaria ) from which the jelly is produced.

The country's name comes from the two regions Bosnia and Herzegovina, which have a very vaguely defined border between them.

The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.

Barium's name originates from the alchemical derivative " baryta ", which itself comes from Greek βαρύς ( barys ), meaning " heavy.

Its name comes from a nightclub in London that is also called Bedrock.