The Beowulf Wikia



Welcome to the The Beowulf Wikia
This is a Wiki designed for use with Larry Swain's Beowulf course so that his students may edit, compose, and contribute to the materials present in hopes of creating a wiki which reflects a clear history of the work as well as (eventually) the surrounding works.

Any citations of the manuscript are from R. M. Liuzza's Beowulf translation, second edition (2013), unless noted otherwise.

About the Wiki
Beowulf is an epic which takes place roughly in in the 7th century between Denmark and Sweden, and was composed sometime before the 11th century. The poem has been translated innumerable times, each translation highlighting different aspects of the epic literature, and has been adapted to different mediums in popular culture very frequently as well. For this reason, being familiar with the text provides enrichment to a great deal of modern culture as well as historical context.

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