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Ælfhere – a kinsman of Wiglaf and Beowulf. Æschere – Hroðgar's closest counselor and comrade, killed by Grendel's mother. Banstan – the father of Breca. Beow or Beowulf – an early Danish king and the son of Scyld, but not the same character as the hero of the poem; Beowulf – son of Ecgtheow, and the eponymous hero of the Anglo ...
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Wealhtheow, Hrothgar's wife is called ides Helminga ("lady of the Helmings") in Beowulf (610), which means that she belonged to Helm's clan and was a Wulfing. [160] Heodenings Old English: Heodeningas, Old Norse: Hjaðningar, Middle High German: Hegelinge *Heðaningas, from the personal name Heoden or maybe meaning "people of the skins".
The Beowulf manuscript is known as the Nowell Codex, gaining its name from 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell. The official designation is " British Library , Cotton Vitellius A.XV" because it was one of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton 's holdings in the Cotton library in the middle of the 17th century.
The 9th c. Rök runestone lists names of Germanic heroes and events, but the significance of most of them is nowadays lost. The figures in the lists below are listed either by the name of their article on Wikipedia or, if there is no article, according to the name by which they are most commonly attested.
Beowulf, Widsith: Bredi Old Norse: Breði: His name is derived from "snowdrift" and master's name is Skadi (Skaði means "ski", "snowshoe"), who was also a goddess/giantess, so it has been suggested that the account of Breði is based on a lost Norse myth. [129] The name is derived from breðafǫnn ("snowdrift"). It was common in the 13th c. to ...
The name is attested to a monk from Durham and means bee wolf in the Old Northumbrian dialect. [4] The 11th century English Domesday Book contains a recorded instance of the name Beulf. [4] The scholar Gregor Sarrazin suggested that the name Beowulf derived from a mistranslation of Böðvarr with -varr interpreted as vargr meaning "wolf". [5]
The name Wealhtheow is unique to Beowulf.Like most Old English names, the name Wealhtheow is transparently recognisable as a compound of two nouns drawn from everyday vocabulary, in this case wealh (which in early Old English meant "Roman, Celtic-speaker" but whose meaning changed during the Old English period to mean "Briton", then "enslaved Briton", and then "slave") and þēow (whose ...