the action in beowulf took place in scandinavia.
the action in beowulf took place in scandinavia.
where does the action in beowulf take place?
scandinavia
list of beowulf characters









































this is a list of "beowulf" characters. "beowulf" is an old english heroic epic poem. its creation dates to between the 8th and the 11th centuries, the only surviving manuscript dating to circa 1010. at 3183 lines, it is notable for its length. it has reached national epic status in england (although its setting is scandinavia, not the british isles). there are a great many characters in "beowulf" ranging from historical people such as hygelac to purely mythological dragons.









































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bullet::::- ælfhere - a kinsman of wiglaf and beowulf
list of beowulf characters
in 1918, william witherle lawrence argued in his article "the dragon and his lair in "beowulf"" that the fight between beowulf and the dragon tends to receive less critical attention than other portions of the poem, commenting that "grendel and his dam have, as it were, become more beloved of the commentators". conversely, kemp malone writes in "the kenning in "beowulf"" that beowulf's fight with the dragon receives much critical attention, but that commentators fail to note that "the dragon was no fighter. not that it refused to fight when challenged, but that it did not seek out beowulf or anyone else. it left beowulf to do the seeking out". in his 1935 work "beowulf and the seventh century", ritchie girvan writes that "beowulf" should be seen as having some degree of historical accuracy despite the presence of a dragon in it; he argues that "tales of dragons as well as a belief in dragons survived till recent times, and the popular mind is apt to accept with credulity stories of water-monsters. the stories, moreover, are often attached to real persons and localized precisely in time and place. the habit is so well known that examples are superfluous". raymond wilson chambers, in his "beowulf: an introduction to the study of the poem with a discussion of the stories of offa and finn", says that "beowulf"s dragon acts like "the typical dragon of old english proverbial lore" because he guards treasure. w. p. ker criticized the inclusion of beowulf's fight with the dragon and his subsequent death in the poem, writing "it is as if to the end of the "odyssey" there had been added some later books telling in full of the old age of odysseus, far from the sea, and his death at the hands of telegonus".
the dragon (beowulf)