Meanings
nounBeowulfiana (uncountable)
- uncountableScholarly work treating the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.
The experts in Beowulfiana are seldom concerned with such judgements.
1963, James R. Kreuzer and Lee Cogan, Modern Writings on Major English Authors, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 32 more examples
But I have read enough, I think, to venture an opinion that Beowulfiana is, while rich in many departments, specially poor in one.
1936, J. R. R. Tolkien, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, published 1976, page 1Tolkien was fully aware of his intervention in mainstream Beowulfiana, and prefaces his analysis with a brief apologia[.]
1994, Clare A. Lees, Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages, University of Minnesota Press, page 131
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