Beowulf (Legendary character)

found: Wikipedia, Feb. 23, 2007 (Beowulf (hero). Beowulf is the legendary hero and king of the Anglo-Saxon, epic poem of the same name. He was the son of Ecgþeow, a banished warrior of the apparently Swedish Wægmundings)

found: The Oxford companion to English literature, via Oxford reference online, Feb. 23, 2007 (Beowulf, an Old English poem of 3,182 lines, surviving in a 10th-cent. manuscript. It tells of two major events in the life of the Geatish hero Beowulf; the historical period of the poem's events can be dated in the 6th cent. from a reference to Beowulf's King Hygelac by the historian Gregory of Tours; but much of the material of the poem is legendary and paralleled in other Germanic historical-mythological literature in Norse, Old English, and German)

found: Encyclopædia Britannica online, Feb. 23, 2007 (Beowulf: heroic poem, the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European vernacular epic. Preserved in a single manuscript (Cotton Vitellius A XV) from c. 1000, it deals with events of the early 6th century and is believed to have been composed between 700 and 750. It did not appear in print until 1815. Although originally untitled, it was later named after the Scandinavian hero Beowulf, whose exploits and character provide its connecting theme. There is no evidence of a historical Beowulf, but some characters, sites, and events in the poem can be historically verified.)

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