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«Wunder æfter wundre»: Recounting the Marvellous in "Beowulf"
AOQU, 2021 The Old English epic of Beowulf is characterised by several supernatural events in which the hero performs wondrous deeds. The most outstanding ability of the Prince of the Geats is to be able to fight dreadful beings such as sea-monsters, Grendel and ...
Gabriele Cocco
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, 2008 Beowulf, an epic poem dating back to the VIIIth century, depicts a fledgling society oscillating between civilisation and barbarism, elevation and entropy.
J. Stephens
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OLD ENGLISH LEXEME BEORN IN THE GLOSSARIES AND THE TEXT OF THE POEM BEOWULF
Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh ProblemBackground. The Old English poem Beowulf known to us in the manuscript of the X-XI centuries embodies the epic world picture of the Anglo-Saxons, idealized past time. With the changing of scientific paradigms, the methods of analyzing the text of Beowulf
Ekaterina A. Krupina
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Saving the “Undoomed Man” In Beowulf (572b-573)
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2015 The maxim Wyrd oft nereð // unfӕgne eorl, / þonne his ellen deah “Fate often spares an undoomed man when his courage avails” (Beowulf 572b-573) has been likened to “Fortune favors the brave,” with little attention to the word unfӕgne, which is often ...
Anderson Salena Sampson
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Digital Medievalist, 2013 Electronic Beowulf 3.0 is the second physical release of Kiernan’s edition, the initial 1999 release being the first (Electronic Beowulf 2.0 was a freely available download that provided enhanced browser compatibility).
Grant Leyton Simpson
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The Grendelkin and the Politics of Succession at Heorot: The Significance of Monsters in Beowulf
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2018 The article considers the significance of the Grendelkin as monsters, bringing to attention the Isidorian understanding of the monster as a sign, portent, and admonition.
Olesiejko Jacek
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Manuscripts Character Recognition Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Modelling, 2023 The automatic character recognition of historic documents gained more attention from scholars recently, due to the big improvements in computer vision, image processing, and digitization.
Mohammad Anwarul Islam, Ionut E. Iacob
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Tiempo de lobos, tiempo de espadas: profecía y muerte de dioses y héroes en la “Völuspá” y Beowulf
Medievalia, 2016 Tiempo de lobos, tiempo de espadas: profecía y muerte de dioses y héroes en la “Völuspá” y ...
Georgina Mejía Amador
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Lattice QCD on a Beowulf Cluster [PDF]
, 1999 Using commodity component personal computers based on Alpha processor and commodity network devices and a switch, we built an 8-node parallel computer. GNU/Linux is chosen as an operating system and message passing libraries such as PVM, LAM, and MPICH ...
Kim, Seyong
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Grendel’s Mere, Beowulf’s Dive, and the Visio Sancti Pauli
Revista Alicantina de Estudios InglesesAccording to Hrothgar’s account of Grendel’s mere, every night one can see there fȳr on flōde, a phrase often translated as ‘fire on the water’. This fire, which the king describes as a nīðwundor (a dreadful wonder), has traditionally been seen by ...
Rafael Pascual
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