BÉOWULF than does any other Old English poem; but its author is unknown.
The Old English text is found in the same manuscript with the BÉOWULF (Cotton, Vitellius, A, xv.
An approximately complete Bibliography of Bēowulf literature will be found in Wülker's Grundriss and in Garnett's translation of the poem.
Wiglaf stabs the dragon from underneath, and Bēowulf cuts it in two with his dagger.
Bēowulf and Grendel contending for the possession of the hall), 771.
Bēowulf plunges into the water, and attacks Grendel's mother in her dwelling at the bottom of the lake.
Bēowulf and the drake) was fear of the other, 2565; gen.
At night-fall the King departs, leaving Bēowulf in charge of the hall.
The genealogical introduction of something over fifty lines (down to the first mention of Hrothgar) has nothing to do with the poem proper; the Béowulf there mentioned is another person than the hero of the poem.
As he appears in the poem, Béowulf is an idealized Anglo-Saxon hero, but in origin he may have been any one of several other different things.
The poem states that Béowulf escaped from this defeat by swimming, and it is quite possible that he was a real warrior who thus distinguished himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owulf" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
