• The "Finnesburg Fragment" (also "Finnsburh Fragment") is a portion of an Old English heroic poem about a fight in which Hnæf and his 60 retainers are besieged...
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    possibly identifiable with the leader of British legend, appears in the Finnesburg Fragment and in Beowulf. J. R. R. Tolkien has theorized that this indicates...
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  • Frisian king. He is mentioned in Widsith, in Beowulf, and in the Finnesburg Fragment. He is named in the Historia Brittonum, while a Finn, given a different...
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    forefather of its Jutish kings. A figure named Hengest appears in the Finnesburg Fragment and in Beowulf. King Horn (dates to the middle of the 13th century):...
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  • War II glider Hengest, a Jutish hero appearing in Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment, who may or may not be the same as the above king G-AAXE Hengist...
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  • Language; by C. L. Wrenn. London: Methuen, 1949 Beowulf, with the Finnesburg fragment; edited by C. L. Wrenn. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1953. Rev...
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  • service Finn (Frisian), Frisian king who appears in Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment Fionn mac Cumhaill (Old Irish: Finn mac Cumhal; anglicised to Finn...
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    tale narrates the events that follow after the story found in the Finnesburg Fragment. The Beowulf poet, however, makes his scop give the account in an...
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    referring to the Hnæf son of Hoc who is prominent in the Old English Finnesburg Fragment. However h was early dropped initially before other consonants in...
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    based on historical people from 6th-century Scandinavia. Like the Finnesburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been...
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    Wrenn's 1940 revision of John R. Clark Hall's book Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment, A Translation into Modern English Prose, which had first been published...
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    von Bern) and Widia (Witege), son of Wayland, against giants. The Finnesburg Fragment tells a story, also relayed in Beowulf of a surprise attack led by...
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  • The Hildebrandslied Old Norse Atlakviða Hamðismál Old English The Finnesburg Fragment Hatto 1980, p. 165. "A terse, self-contained, objective, memorized...
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  • father of legendary Frisian hero Finn known from Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment. Later versions do not follow this change: some add an additional...
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    epic to have survived in its entirety, but fragments of others such as Waldere and the Finnesburg Fragment show that it was not unique in its time. Other...
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  • Sonnenschein & Co. —— (1940). Wrenn, Charles Leslie (ed.). Beowulf and the Finnesburg fragment: A Translation into Modern English Prose (3rd ed.). London: George...
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  • ISBN 978-0-35-865298-4. Klaeber, Friedrich (1950). Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment. Translated by John R. Clark Hall (3 ed.). Allen & Unwin. Lobdell...
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  • Waldere, an epic which is now lost apart from two short fragments. The Finnesburg Fragment, comprising 50 lines from an otherwise lost poem. Bede's translation...
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    ISBN 978-0-415-01897-5 Wrenn, Charles Leslie (1973), Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment (3rd ed.), Harrap, ISBN 978-0-245-51008-3 "seax". British Museum...
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    Finn, son of Folcwald, well known from Beowulf, Widsith and the Finnesburg Fragment. Acoording the legend, Finn was killed by the Saxon leaders Hengist...
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  • reference to Beowulf and the single surviving transcript of the Finnesburg Fragment. Chikamatsu Monzaemon (近松門左衛門) almost abandons writing kabuki plays...
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  • Wanderer; that "Arise now, arise, Riders of Theoden" is based on the Finnesburg Fragment, on which Tolkien wrote a commentary; and that there are three other...
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  • German philologist Frederick J. Klaeber (1863–1954). Beowulf and the Finnesburg fragment: a translation into modern English prose (1940). Translated with...
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  • on other major Old English poems, including Widsith, Maxims, the Finnesburg Fragment, and The Dream of the Rood. His research addresses questions of authorship...
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  • first edition, Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg, in 1922. The Finnesburg Fragment which he included is all that remains of another poem about an event...
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  • published reference to Beowulf and the only surviving transcript of the Finnesburg Fragment. William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where his participation...
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    Anglo-Saxon Poems of Beowulf, the Scôp or Gleeman's Tale, and the Fight at Finnesburg. Oxford: John Henry Parker. p. 69. Tolkien, J. R. R. (2014). Tolkien,...
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