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	SparkNotes: Beowulf: Character List
		Beowulf - The protagonist of the epic, Beowulf is a Geatish hero who fights the monster Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a fire-breathing dragon.
		He is a father figure to Beowulf and a model for the kind of king that Beowulf becomes.
		Beowulf’s fight with the dragon constitutes the third and final part of the epic.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/beowulf/characters.html (776 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Beowulf Study Guide - Character List
		Beowulf eventually kills him, with his severed arm hung as a trophy in Heorot.
		Beowulf: He is a thane of the Geat king Hygelac and eventually becomes King of the Geats.
		As the watchman for the Danes, he is the first to greet Beowulf and his thanes to the land of the Danes.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/beowulf/charlist.html (673 words)

	Beowulf - Conservapedia
		Beowulf is an early medieval epic poem, and the oldest known surviving literature in the English Language.
		Beowulf pretends to sleep, and just as Grendel is about to devour him, he begins to fight the dreadful monster.
		Beowulf is buried with the dragons treasure beneath a mound of stones on the shore of a sea so he cairn may be a landmark for sailors to find their way by.
	www.conservapedia.com /Beowulf (1054 words)

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		Beowulf's childhood friend was Breca of the Brondings "supposed to be the inhabitants of the island BrÃ¤nnÃ¶, lying off the coast of West Gothland in the Cattegat" [1]).
		Beowulf ruled the Geats for 50 years, until his realm was terrorized by a dragon whose treasure had been stolen from his hoard in a burial mound.
		Beowulf is a mythological king and an epic hero, because he goes to fight "a strenuous battle against the disorganization of the universe." (McConnel 1979:59) He has three mythological battles, dying in the final battle against the dragon in the defense of his people.
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	Beowulf - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Beowulf is one of the oldest surviving epic poems in what is identifiable as a form of the English language.
		The Beowulf story, in combination with the tenth-century Arabic narrative of Aḩmad ibn Faḑlān, was used as basis for Michael Crichton's novel Eaters of the Dead.
		Beowulf and the player embark on a quest to restore her to her human form.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Beowulf (1457 words)

	Origins for Beowulf and Rolf Krake
		Beowulf and Rolf Krake (Hrolf Kraki) are two well-known characters in the myths and sagas of ancient Scandinavia.
		There are several characters in Beowulf that apparently match the names known from other ancient northern tales and Sagas.
		Furthermore, the Swedish kings referenced in Beowulf is adequately matched with the alleged 5th and 6th century Svea kings in Ubsola:
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/or/Origins_for_Beowulf_and_Rolf_Krake.html (540 words)

	Beowulf (computing) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Borg, a 52-node Beowulf cluster used by the McGill University pulsar group to search for pulsations from binary pulsars.
		Beowulf is a design for high-performance parallel computing clusters on inexpensive personal computer hardware.
		A Beowulf cluster is a group of usually identical PC computers running an open source Unix-like operating system, such as Linux or BSD.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Beowulf_cluster (263 words)

	Search Free Essays about Beowulf Character Analysis
		Beowulf is a great example of a hero who risks his life a number of times for glory and for the good of others.
		Beowulf is strong enough to kill the monster Grendel, who has been terrorizing the Danes for twelve years, with his bare hands.
		When Beowulf is fighting Grendel's mother, who is avenging on her sons death he is able to kill her by decapitating the monster with a Giant's sword that can only be lifted by someone with superior strength.
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	Beowulf - RecipeFacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Beowulf is one of the oldest surviving epic poems in what is identifiable as an early form of the English language.
		Again, Beowulf is saved from the effects of his opponent's attack by his armour and, grasping a mighty sword from Grendel's mother's armoury (which, the poem tells us, no other man could have hefted in battle), Beowulf beheads her.
		Beowulf and his warriors come to fight the dragon, but only one of the warriors, a brave young man named Wiglaf, stays to help Beowulf, because the rest are too afraid.
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	ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
		Beowulf tries to convince people that he has come only in pursuit of glory and to offer the poor Danes the assistance of a real man. Beowulf is a poor guest and loses no opportunity to insult his host's followers.
		Beowulf ignores this reasoning and states that he won the fight on his own and that God protected Grendel (presumably as a descendant of Cain), or Beowulf would have been able to defeat him outright.
		In the end, Beowulf will die because of his insistence upon trying to hog all of the glory of slaying the dragon for himself and be regarded as the equal of the famous Sigismund.
	www.the-orb.net /textbooks/nelson/reading_beowulf.html (2203 words)

	Beowulf - Essays - Legend of Beowulf
		Beowulf is one of the earliest renditions of the heroic tradition.
		Beowulf, an epic poem of Old English origins, and The Poem of the Cid, an eleventh-century epic poem from Spain, are both considered legends from the oral tradition that mirror the developmental stages of their culture.
		This 5 page paper explores the tale of Beowulf and the Poem of the Cid with an emphasis on their status as legend based on the shared concepts of a hero on a quest and the theme as reflective of the stage of development of feudalism.
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	Similar Essays on Beowulf character analysis
		Beowulf is steeped in a pagan tradition that depicts nature as hostile and forces of death as uncontrollable.
		Beowulf embodies all of the characteristics of an epic hero.
		Beowulf, a nobleman of the Geats, was one of those people who make the foolish choice of continuing strenuous activities throughout their old age.
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	Origins for Beowulf and Hrólf Kraki - Definition, explanation
		Beowulf and Hrólf Kraki are two well-known characters in the myths and sagas of ancient Scandinavia.
		There are several characters in Beowulf that match to a large extent characters known from other ancient northern tales and sagas.
		The standard view is that – if Beowulf himself has a 'cognate' character in Rolf Kraki's story – it is Bödvar Bjarki (Bodvar Biarke), who also has a younger companion, Hjalti (Hialte) – perhaps matching the Beowulf character Wiglaf.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/o/or/origins_for_beowulf_and_hrolf_kraki.php (1082 words)

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		Beowulf's strength, courage and sense of self-worth are all traits that gained him recognition as a hero.
		Beowulf is an epic poem that is about a town in Demark that has a problem with a monster named Grendal who kills men at night and vanishes in the dark.
		Beowulf is one of the oldest existing poems in the English language.
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	BeowulfTranslations.net: Buying Beowulf Essays on the Internet
		The dragon and Beowulf are both in their decline, have lived lives of acquiring goods and honors (fear for the dragon is an honor equal to Beowulf's being King).
		Beowulf is not primarily concerned with self-promotion, but you have to give him a bit of leeway to psych himself up for battling monsters.
		Beowulf, an epic poem of Old English origins, and The Poem of the Cid, an eleventh-century epic poem from Spain, are both considered legends from the oral tradition that mirror the developmental stages of their culture.
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	NovelGuide: Beowulf: Character Profiles
		Grendel's mother kills Aeschere in the mead-hall before she is vanquished by Beowulf in her dwelling place at the bottom of a haunted lake.
		Beowulf spent much of his childhood as a ward at Hrethel's court.
		He befriended Beowulf's father, and is deeply grateful to Beowulf for killing the monsters that have tormented his people.
	www.novelguide.com /Beowulf/characterprofiles.html (916 words)

	Beowulf
		Beowulf also gives modern readers an insight into what the people of this time period believed to be heroic.
		The characters are flat and stereotypical; this is partially due to the narration of the story.
		The characters are stereotypes because the audience expects the hero to be very brave or the king to protect his subjects.
	www.bsu.edu /web/00wwnewbold/444/litlitexamp2.htm (998 words)

	Beowulf Characters
		He is first and foremost the hero who kills the monsters no one else can face, but he is more than a fighter.
		Beowulf is a strong man who thinks and feels.
		Beowulf Location Map (places mentioned in the poem)
	www.enotes.com /beowulf/characters (141 words)

	Beowulf Essays
		The revisionist monk who wrote Beowulf incorporated the pagan and Christian concepts of fate to promote a system of monarchy where power is passed on through heirs as opposed to the system where the greatest, strongest warrior claims the throne.
		Beowulf's journey to become the hero he is perceived to be throughout Hrothgar's kingdom.
		Beowulf was not a perfect hero, though; there were several flaws in his character that led to his tragic ending.
	www.bookrags.com /essay/Beowulf (2308 words)

	Historical Legend in Beowulf
		Beowulf himself, however, is generally assumed to be a fictitious character.
		In Beowulf, the poet uses legend to create a historical past that lends an air of authenticity to the fantastic d eeds of Beowulf.
		This work presents the results of a search to examine the extent to which Wealtheow, Hrothgar’s queen, is a stock female character of Germanic poetry, and the extent to which she is an Anglo-Saxon version of an identifiable legendary figure.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~cpercy/courses/1001Purnis.htm (1193 words)

	Beowulf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The character of Beowulf is the paragon of this warrior culture.
		Beowulf would endanger his very existence just to be popular.
		For example as Beowulf is slowly dying, Beowulf tells Wiglaf to make a huge funeral pyre for him, "Bid the battle-renowned make a mound, bright after the funeral fire, on the sea’s cape.
	csis.pace.edu /grendel/projf984c/beowulf/warfare.htm (525 words)

	Some Notes on Reading Beowulf\| Lectures in Medieval History
		Beowulf tries to convince people that he has come only in pursuit of glory and to offer the poor Danes the assistance of a real man. He is a not a very polite guest and loses no opportunity to insult his host's followers.
		Beowulf ignores this pious reasoning and states that he won the fight on his own and that God protected Grendel (presumably as a descendant of Cain), or Beowulf would have been able to defeat him outright rather than only tearing his arm out of the socket and so allowing the monster to escape.
		In the end, at the close of the poem, Beowulf will die because of his insistence upon trying to gain all of the glory of slaying a dragon for himself and to be regarded as the equal of the famous Sigismund.
	www.vlib.us /medieval/lectures/reading_beowulf.html (2465 words)

	Beowulf (character) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The red area is VÃ¤stergÃ¶tland (the core region of Geatland), the yellow area is the territory ruled by the Wulfings, the pink area is the Danish territory.
		Beowulf was the son of EcgÃ¾eow, a banished warrior of the apparently Swedish WÃ¦gmundings.
		This would be a realistic location for a childhood friend of Beowulf, and they were involved in a swimming contest which is described in the poem.
	www.pillscatalog.net /Beowulf_%28character%29.html (820 words)

	NovelGuide: Beowulf: Character Profiles
		Grendel’s mother kills Aeschere in the mead-hall before she is vanquished by Beowulf in her dwelling place at the bottom of a haunted lake.
		Beowulf spent much of his childhood as a ward at Hrethel’s court.
		He befriended Beowulf’s father, and is deeply grateful to Beowulf for killing the monsters that have tormented his people.
	www.novelguide.org /Beowulf/characterprofiles.html (916 words)

	Beowulf (character) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Beowulf is the hero of the Anglo-Saxon poem titled after him (see Beowulf).
		Beowulf's childhood friend was Breca of the Brondings (who probably lived on BrÃ¤nnÃ¶ outside of modern Gothenburg).
		When king HroÃ°gar and his court were terrorized by the troll-like creature Grendel, Beowulf left Geatland (West GÃ¶taland) and sailed to Zealand with twelve warriors in order to pay his father's debt.
	www.abcworld.net /Beowulf_%28character%29.html (761 words)

	GRENDEL by John Gardner -- Novels for Students
		A relatively minor character in Beowulf, Grendel is a symbol for "darkness, chaos, and death," according to critic John M. Howell in Understanding John Gardner.
		Beowulf is the oldest long poem in English, written as early as perhaps the seventh century A.D., with the only manuscript version dating to around 1000 A.D. The Danish King, Hrothgar, has built a fabulous meadhall, Heorot, for himself and his retainers.
		Beowulf : Beowulf is the hero with the "strength of thirty thanes" (Chapter 10) who finally slays Grendel and brings peace to the land of the Scyldings.
	homepage.mac.com /mseffie/assignments/beowulf/grendel_overview.html (3891 words)

	Beowulf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A turning point in Beowulf scholarship came in 1936 with J.R.R. Tolkien's article the monsters and the critics when, for the first time, the poem and Anglo-Saxon literature were seriously examined for its literary meritsâ”not just scholarship about the origins of the English language as was popular in the 19th century.
		Beowulf exercised an important influence on J.R.R. Tolkien, who wrote the landmark essay the Monsters and the Critics while a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University.
		Beowulf and Grendel appear in several episodes of Warrior Princess, including "The Rheingold".
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2Fen%2FBeowulf (4081 words)

	Beowulf (hero) - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Beowulf is the hero of the Anglo-Saxon poem by his name (see Beowulf).
		When king Hroðgar and his court were terrorized by the troll-like creature Grendel, Beowulf left Geatland (West Götaland) and sailed to Zealand with 12 warriors in order to pay his father's debt.
		Beowulf decided to follow the dragon into its lair, but only his young Swedish relative Wiglaf dared join him.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Beowulf_(character) (677 words)

	NTU Info Centre: Grendel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In Beowulf, Grendel haunts Heorot, the [[mead]]-hall of the Danes, and eats men too drunk to defend themselves.
		Beowulf leaves [[GötalandGeatland]] to defeat the monster bare-handed.
		Later, Grendel's mother, who is more powerful than Grendel, attempts to take revenge for the death of her son, but is killed by Beowulf.
	www.nowtryus.net /article:Grendel?source=true (278 words)

	Beowulf - Character Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Beowulf defeats three gruesome monsters, two of whom are descendants of Cain.
		He is Beowulf's uncle, King of the Geats.It is to him that Beowulf wishes his treasures to be sent if anything should happen to him.
		He doubts Beowulf's power to defeat Grendel, claiming that it is luck that has been helping Beowulf in his previous encounters.
	csis.pace.edu /grendel/projf981e/char.html (470 words)

	Beowulf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The character of Beowulf is the paragon of this warrior culture.
		Beowulf would endanger his very existence just to be popular.
		For example as Beowulf is slowly dying, Beowulf tells Wiglaf to make a huge funeral pyre for him, "Bid the battle-renowned make a mound, bright after the funeral fire, on the sea’s cape.
	www.csis.pace.edu /grendel/projf984c/beowulf/warfare.htm (525 words)

	beowulf old english poetry translation harp performance storytelling
		Beowulf's armor is splendid, not that of "a mere retainer." And Beowulf's men march to Heorot with mail shirts gleaming, each chain ring in their war shirts "singing" as they march to the hall.
		Beowulf does not experience Heremod's mad rage, but his disastrous last battle creates the same outcome: "a lifetime of sorrow to his people and death to his nobles." The cycle has turned completely from the beginning of the poem to the end.
		Beowulf and Hrothgar, two pagan figures, speak of "God," “the Lord in his wisdom,” “judgement day.” This sort of language is difficult to square with the obviously pagan context of their lives.
	www.beowulfpoet.com /TEAelements.html (9265 words)

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