- The "
Finnesburg Fragment" (also "Finnsburh Fragment") is a
portion of an Old
English heroic poem in
alliterative verse about a
fight in
which Hnæf and...
-
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...
-
legendary 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...
- Anglo-Saxon
poems of Beowulf, the Scôp or Gleeman's tale, and The
fight at
Finnesburg; with a
literal translation, notes, glossary, etc.
Oxford Parker. Slade...
- are
based on
historical people from 6th-century Scandinavia. Like the
Finnesburg Fragment and
several shorter surviving poems,
Beowulf has consequently...
- Collins. 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...
-
forefather of its
Jutish kings. A
figure named Hengest appears in the
Finnesburg Fragment and in Beowulf. 6th century:
Sceafa (date uncertain): Ancient...
- L. 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...
-
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 genres include...
-
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...
