Beowulf

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A renowned Old English alliterative poem, preserved in a single manuscript within the Nowell Codex, composed sometime between 975 and 1025 AD.
    — John Gardner’s retelling of Beowulf is titled Grendel.
  2. An Anglo-Saxon personal name, usually with reference to the hero of the poem, or to the poem itself. poetic
    — Beowulf is as great a hero as Sigmund.

词形变化

Beowulfs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Beowulfian Beowulfiana

词源

Learned borrowing from Old English Bēowulf, probably equivalent to bee + wolf, though the first element is uncertain.
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