Word: beowulf
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...course in Beowulf will meet today (Thursday) in Upper Dane at 11 o'clock...
...similar, though not identical, would have taken place, for the Saxon was rapidly changing and would have ended, what with the processes incident to all living languages, and the introduction of Latin at the revival of learning, in something nearer to modern English than to the Anglo-Saxon of Beowulf...
...character, and their religion. He showed how they brought with them their old songs and legends, and how they influenced the native legends in Britain. Only three of these legends have safely passed the destructive hands of the monks, namely. "The Gleeman's Song." "The Fight at Frimsburg," and "Beowulf," and they are the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 'The Fight at Frimsburg' is short but alive with the fire of war, and the description of battles. Beowulf, however, is a long and thrilling tale, and told with Homeric simplicity. A deep fatalism broods over the poem...