Finnesburg Fragment information

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...

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...

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):...

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...

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...

service Finn (Frisian), Frisian king who appears in Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment Fionn mac Cumhaill (Old Irish: Finn mac Cumhal; anglicised to Finn...

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...

based on historical people from 6th-century Scandinavia. Like the Finnesburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Hildebrandslied Old Norse Atlakviða Hamðismál Old English The Finnesburg Fragment Hatto 1980, p. 165. "A terse, self-contained, objective, memorized...

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...

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...

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...

Sonnenschein & Co. —— (1940). Wrenn, Charles Leslie (ed.). Beowulf and the Finnesburg fragment: A Translation into Modern English Prose (3rd ed.). London: George...

Finn, son of Folcwald, well known from Beowulf, Widsith and the Finnesburg Fragment. Acoording the legend, Finn was killed by the Saxon leaders Hengist...

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...

on other major Old English poems, including Widsith, Maxims, the Finnesburg Fragment, and The Dream of the Rood. His research addresses questions of authorship...

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...

published reference to Beowulf and the only surviving transcript of the Finnesburg Fragment. William Somervile inherits his father's estate, where his participation...

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,...