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Beowulf and the Hunt

open access: yesHumanities, 2022
The presence of hunting imagery in Beowulf has often been noted, but the significance of the figures of the stag and the wolf to the thematic design of the poem has yet to be fully explored.
Francis Leneghan
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DRUŠTVENA ULOGA ŽENA U EPU BEOWULF [PDF]

open access: yesHum, 2023
Ep Beowulf nepoznata autora, zapisan oko 1000. godine, obilježava početak staroengleske književnosti. U akademskim je tekstovima dosta zastupljen te se rad Društvena uloga žena u epu Beowulf oslanja na djela koja se bave pitanjima položaja i uloge žena u
Valentina Markasović
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From Epic Characters to a Movie Transformation: Tracing the Journey of Beowulf from Old English Poetry to Contemporary Motion Picture [PDF]

open access: yesLitinfinite, 2020
Beowulf, the tale of a celebrated hero and slayer of monsters, is the one of the finest and oldest epic poems of English literature. This poem was finally written down by an unknown poet after being passed on orally from one generation to another for ...
Trishita Gautam
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OLD ENGLISH LEXEME ÆÐELING IN THE GLOSSARIES AND IN THE TEXT OF THE POEM BEOWULF

open access: yesSovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem, 2023
Background. The Old English poem Beowulf is one of the samples of the Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition and the culture. This work keeps secrets that attract attention of culture experts, historians, linguists, including lexicographers.
Ekaterina A. Krupina
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Lacanian Implications of Departures in Zemeckis’s Beowulf from Beowulf, the Old English Epic

open access: yesText Matters, 2021
Although Robert Zemeckis’s film Beowulf (2007) is a re-writing of the Old English epic Beowulf with a shifting of perspective, certain details in the film can only be understood by referring to the poem.
Nurten Birlik
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A Comparative Analysis of Fiction and Epic Features in Shahnameh and Beowulf [PDF]

open access: yesMatn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2017
Beowulf is the oldest and greatest work of epic literature in England which was composed in old English language. Its major hero`s name is Beowulf. The name of the major hero of Shahnameh is Rostam. As Beowulf and Shahnameh have considerable similarities,
Mohammad Alijani, Mohammad Ahi
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FUNCTIONAL NAMES IN “BEOWULF”: AN ANALYSIS

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2019
Functional Names in Beowulf: An Analysis. Proper names lose their connection with the initial referent of the word, being devoid of their character of semantic predicates.
Mihaela BUZEC
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Writing in a Pre-Christian Mode: Boethius, Beowulf, Lord of the Rings, and Till We Have Faces

open access: yesPerichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2022
In this essay, I compare and contrast how Boethius (in Consolation of Philosophy), the author of Beowulf, J. R. R. Tolkien (in The Lord of the Rings), and C. S.
Markos Louis
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Hygelac's only daughter: a present, a potentate and a peaceweaver in Beowulf [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
[FIRST PARAGRAPH] The women of Beowulf have enjoyed extensive study in recent years, but one has escaped the limelight: the only daughter of Hygelac, king of the Geats and Beowulf’s lord.
Hall, Alaric
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Whose Beowulf is it anyway? Review of Electronic Beowulf [CD-Rom]

open access: yesInternet Archaeology, 2001
'Beowulf? .... that's by Seamus Heaney. Sorry we're sold out.' It is hardly surprising that Heaney's new translation of Beowulf should seem like a completely new work. It has been a very long time since Grendel's mother was on the archaeology reading
William Kilbride
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