The story
- Old English · learned borrowing fromBēowulf
- English todayBeowulf
Learned borrowing from Old English Bēowulf, probably equivalent to bee + wolf, though the first element is uncertain.
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Beowulf
Today it means: A renowned Old English alliterative poem, preserved in a single manuscript within the Nowell Codex, composed sometime between 975 and 1025 AD. Full definition →
Old English Bēowulf