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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Monsters in fiction, Poems adapted into films, Germanic heroic legends, Articles that link to Wikisource, 9th-century books
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Beowulf  Beawolf  Beawulf  Beowolf  Beowoulf
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The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon WordNet 3.0
English:
poem
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The legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. Wikipedia
Old English epic poem. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Old English heroic epic poem Wikidata
IS A
fictional character
heroic poetry
HAS PART
Geater
PART OF
Nowell Codex
CHARACTERS
Hrólfr Kraki
Hrothgar
Grendel's mother
Unferð
Hildeburh
+6 relations
COPYRIGHT STATUS
public domain
DERIVATIVE WORK
Beowulf
Beowulf
Grendel Grendel Grendel
Beowulf & Grendel
Grendel
+3 relations
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Concise Literary Encyclopedia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
GENRE
heroic poetry
heroic poetry
HAS EDITION OR TRANSLATION
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
HAS PARTS OF THE CLASS
verse
alliterative verse
LANGUAGE OF WORK OR NAME
Old English
NAMED AFTER
Beowulf
NARRATIVE LOCATION
Scandinavia
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Beowulf
Wikipedia
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Beowulf
Wikidata
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Beowulf
Wikipedia Redirections
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Beawolf, Beawulf, Beowolf, Beowoulf, Beowulf (poem), Beowulf poet, Beowulf story, Beowulph, Beówulf, Béowulf, Bēowulf, Date of Beowulf, dating of Beowulf, Nortonwulf
Wikidata Alias
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Bēowulf

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