Beowulf.
A renowned Old English alliterative poem, preserved in a single manuscript within the Nowell Codex, composed sometime between 975 and 1025 AD.
Meaning & usage
A renowned Old English alliterative poem, preserved in a single manuscript within the Nowell Codex, composed sometime between 975 and 1025 AD.
An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of the poem, or to the poem itself.
Beowulf is as great a hero as Sigmund.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Old English Bēowulf, probably equivalent to bee + wolf, though the first element is uncertain.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.