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  2. Beowulf - Wikipedia

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    The battles of Beowulf, the Geatish hero, in youth and old age: Personages: ... In 1837, John Mitchell Kemble created an important literal translation in English. [91]

  3. List of adaptations of Beowulf - Wikipedia

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    2007: Beowulf, an animated film directed by Robert Zemeckis starring Ray Winstone and created through motion capture. The manuscript was written by Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman . It deviates significantly from the original poem, most notably by making the dragon fought in the finale the offspring of Beowulf and Grendel's mother, whom he did not ...

  4. Beowulf (2007 film) - Wikipedia

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    Beowulf is a 2007 American animated fantasy action film produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, based on the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and featuring the voices of Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright, Brendan Gleeson, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman, and Angelina Jolie.

  5. Old English literature - Wikipedia

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    The poem Beowulf, which often begins the traditional canon of English literature, ... Old English dictionaries and references were created from the 17th century.

  6. Kelmscott Press - Wikipedia

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    Page from the Kelmscott Press's Beowulf. The Kelmscott Beowulf is considered Morris's "most problematic" book project. The text was based on A. J. Wyatt's prose translation. Morris adapted the translation into verse format, and made some of the language more archaic. [56] He developed the Troy font for the Beowulf.

  7. Beowulf and Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Beowulf is an epic poem in Old English, telling the story of its eponymous pagan hero.He becomes King of the Geats after ridding Heorot, the hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, of the monster Grendel, [a] who was ravaging the land; he dies saving his people from a dragon.

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  9. The dragon (Beowulf) - Wikipedia

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    The Beowulf dragon is described with Old English terms such as draca (dragon), and wyrm (reptile, or serpent), and as a creature with a venomous bite. [11] Also, the Beowulf poet created a dragon with specific traits: a nocturnal, treasure-hoarding, inquisitive, vengeful, fire-breathing creature. [12]