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Type: Website
Language: English, Old English
Published: 2015
Publisher: Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky
Editor: Kevin Kiernan
Contributor: Ionut Emil Iacob
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The "Electronic Beowulf - Fourth Edition" website provides digital access to academic materials concerning the Anglo-Saxon poem named Beowulf. It includes manuscript images of Cotton MS Vitellius A.XV; and, reading tools for vocabulary, grammar, and more. It is an important online resource for any student or scholar interested in Beowulf. It is in its fourth edition (2015 release date) and was developed by Kevin Kiernan and Ionut E. Iacob.

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  • The fourth edition of Electronic Beowulf is a free, online version of Electronic Beowulf that supersedes all previous editions. The online edition is designed to meet the needs of general readers, who require a full, line by line, translation; of students, who want to understand the grammar and the meter and still have time in a semester to study and appreciate other important aspects of the poem; and of scholars, who want immediate access to a critical apparatus identifying the nearly 2000 eighteenth-century restorations, editorial emendations, and manuscript-based conjectural restorations. For best results, use your browser's full screen. Enjoy!

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Beowulf Epic

Myth

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Beowulf, the hero, helps the Danes by killing the man-eating monster named Grendel, and his mother. Afterwards, Beowulf returns home and becomes the king of the Geats, ruling until his heroic death over fifty years later. In his final battle, he slays a dragon. The poem ends by honoring the greatness of Beowulf.

Type: Prestige, Hero
Created: Unknown
Belief system: Norse Paganism
Main deity: Beowulf
Other deities: Grendel
Origin: Europe › Northern Europe › Sweden
Norse Paganism

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Norse Paganism refers to the beliefs and traditions of people from Scandinavia: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

Beowulf

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While Beowulf was not a formal deity in the Norse pantheon, he was a mythical hero who had unusual skills and abilities.

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Cotton MS Vitellius A.XV

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Kevin Kiernan

Editor · Main contributor

Kevin Kiernan is an American professor and scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature.
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Ionut Emil Iacob

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Ionut Emil Iacob is a professor of mathematics and contributor to the Electronic Beowulf.

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Kiernan, Kevin, ed., and Ionut E. Iacob, developer. "Electronic Beowulf - Fourth Edition" [Website application]. British Library and the University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 2015. Accessed July 1, 2020. https://ebeowulf.uky.edu.

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