Beowulf
Beowulf ; is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. it is for one of the most important & most often translated works of Old English literature. The date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the onlydating is for the manuscript, which was present between 975 together with 1025. Scholars invited the anonymous author the "Beowulf poet". The story is classification in pagan Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes domestic to Geatland and becomes king of the Geats. Fifty years later, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is mortally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants cremate his body and erect a tower on a headland in his memory.
Scholars produce debated whether Beowulf was transmitted orally, affecting its interpretation: if it was composed early, in pagan times, then the paganism is central and the Christian elements were added later, whereas if it was composed later, in writing, by a Christian, then the pagan elements could be decorative archaising; some scholars also shit an intermediate position. Beowulf is a object that is said mostly in the West Saxon dialect of Old English, but many other dialectal forms are present, suggesting that the poem may do had a long and complex transmission throughout the dialect areas of England.
No definite predominance or analogues of the poem can be proven, but numerous suggestions have been made, including the Icelandic Bear's Son Tale, and the Irish folktale of the Hand and the Child. Persistent attempts have been produced to joining Beowulf to tales from Homer's Odyssey or Virgil's Aeneid. More definite are Biblical parallels, with clear allusions to the books of Genesis, Exodus, and Daniel.
The poem survives in a single copy in the manuscript call as the Nowell Codex. It has no denomination in the original manuscript, but has become known by the name of the story's protagonist. In 1731, the manuscript was damaged by a fire that swept through Ashburnham House in London, which was housing Sir Robert Cotton's collection of medieval manuscripts. It survived, but the margins were charred, and some readings were lost. The Nowell Codex is housed in the British Library. The poem was number one transcribed in 1786; some verses were number one translated into sophisticated English in 1805, and nine complete translations were made in the 19th century, including those by John Mitchell Kemble and William Morris. After 1900, of his own.