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- spelling of Old Norse, jǫtunn /ˈjɔːtʊn/; or, in Old English, eoten, plural eotenas) is a type of being in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, they are...
- it with Folcwalda's son (Finn), and the eotena sons (line 1088). Hengest broods on revenge against the eotena sons, wanting to remind them of his sword...
- Beowulf's eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas, "ogres and elves and devil-corpses" helped to inspire Tolkien to create the Orcs and Elves of Middle-earth....
- Introduction by Alan Bliss. Tolkien: Finn and Hengest, the discussion of Eotena, p****im. Kennedy, Michael (2001). "Tolkien and Beowulf – Warriors of Middle-earth"...
- also have placed ēse and ælfe in contrast with monstrous beings such as eotenas and wyrmas, although it is unclear exactly how the beings were conceived...
- Beowulf's eotenas ond ylfe ond orcneas, "ogres and elves and demon-corpses", inspiring Tolkien to create orcs and other races...
- different tribes, and whereas the Geats are called gēatas, the Jutes are called ēotena (genitive) or ēotenum (dative).: 108  Moreover, the Old English poem Widsith...
- traditions about elves. The Old English Beowulf-poet spoke of the strange eotenas ond ylfe ond orcnéas, "ettens [giants] and elves and demon-corpses", a...
- developed into the Jutes. The Jutes have also been identified with the Eotenas (ēotenas) involved in the Frisian conflict with the Danes as described in the...
- – an amalgam of Cimbri, Teutons, Gutones and Charudes called Eudoses, Eotenas, Iutae or Euthiones in other sources - and recorded by Bede in his Ecclesiastical...