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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Chapters: Beowulf, Old Norse, Kalevala, Prose Edda, Orkneyinga saga, Eadgils, Yrsa, List of Kalevala translations, Rök Runestone, Snorri Sturluson, The Dragon, Styrbjörn the Strong, Skald, Jack Frost, Flateyjarbók, Elias Lönnrot,... Viac o knihe

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Chapters: Beowulf, Old Norse, Kalevala, Prose Edda, Orkneyinga saga, Eadgils, Yrsa, List of Kalevala translations, Rök Runestone, Snorri Sturluson, The Dragon, Styrbjörn the Strong, Skald, Jack Frost, Flateyjarbók, Elias Lönnrot, Onela, Ingvar the Far-Travelled, Waldere, Yule Lads, Överhogdal tapestries, Shieldmaiden, Grýla, Vörðr, Sturla Þórðarson, Floksmen, Austrfararvísur. Excerpt: Beowulf (; in Old English or , literally "bee wolf" i.e. "bee hunter", a kenning for "bear") 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. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through the building which housed a collection of medieval manuscripts that had been assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. It fell into obscurity for many decades, and its existence did not become widely known again until it was printed in 1815 in an edition prepared by the Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who has been attacking the resident warriors of the mead hall of Hroðgar (the king of the Danes), Grendel's mother, and an unnamed dragon. After the first two victories, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and becomes king of the Geats. The last fight takes place fifty years later. In this final battle, Beowulf is fatally wounded. After his death, his servants bury him in a tumulus in Geatland. Approximate central regions of tribes mentioned in Beowulf with the location of the Angles. See Scandza for details of Scandinavia's political fragmentation in the 6th century.The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun migration and settlement in England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Saxons were either newly arrived or in close contact with their fellow Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany. The poem could have been transmitted in England by people of Geatish origins. It has been suggested that Beowulf was first composed in the 7th century at Rendlesham in East Angl

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