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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- are based on historical people from 6th-century Scandinavia. Like the Finnesburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently...
- World 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...
- forefather of its Jutish kings. A figure named Hengest appears in the Finnesburg Fragment and in Beowulf. 6th century: Sceafa (date uncertain): Ancient...
- 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...