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- Medieval text.name
- Beowulf
- Medieval text.image
- File:Beowulf Cotton MS Vitellius A XV f. 132r.jpg
- Medieval text.caption
- First page of Beowulf in Cotton Vitellius A. xv.Beginning: (translation: How much we of Spear-Da/nes, in days gone by, of kings / the glory have heard...)
- Medieval text.author(s)
- Unknown
- Medieval text.language
- West Saxon dialect of Old English
- Medieval text.date
- Disputed ()
- Medieval text.state of existence
- Manuscript suffered damage from fire in 1731
- Medieval text.manuscript(s)
- Cotton Vitellius A. xv ()
- Medieval text.first printed edition
- Thorkelin (1815)
- Medieval text.verse form
- Alliterative verse
- Medieval text.genre
- Epic heroic writing
- Medieval text.subject
- The battles of Beowulf, the Geatish hero, in youth and old age
- Medieval text.personages
- Beowulf, Hygelac, Hrothgar, Wealhtheow, Hrothulf, Æschere, Unferth, Grendel, Grendel's mother, Wiglaf, Hildeburh. Full list of characters.
- Medieval text.wikisource
- Beowulf
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- epic poem
- Part of
- Nowell Codex
- Named after
- Beowulf
- Genre
- epic poem
- Narrative location
- Scandinavia
- Image
- Beowulf Cotton MS Vitellius A XV f. 132r.jpg
- Has parts of class
- alliterative verse
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- language of work or name
- Old English
- Commons category
- Beowulf
- topic's main category
- Category:Beowulf
- set in period
- 6th century
- Commons gallery
- Beowulf
- title
- Bēowulf
- IPA transcription
- beɪoʊ-wʊlf
- first line
- Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena in gēar-dagum
- last line
- lēodum līðost, ond lof-geornost.
- copyright status
- public domain
- described by source
- Concise Literary Encyclopedia
- different from
- Beowulf
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- number of parts of this work
- 3182
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