Finnsburh Fragment — (The Fight at Finnsburh, The Battle at Finnsburh) (ca. 700–1000) The Fight at Finnsburh is the name commonly given to a fragment of 48 lines of an OLD ENGLISH poem discovered on a single parchment manuscript page in the 18th century and… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
Hengest — (oder Hengist) ist eine halblegendäre Gestalt des 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr., die in zwei voneinander unabhängigen Quellensträngen auftaucht: einmal in der „Finnsage“ als Gefolgsmann des Dänenkönigs Hnæf, das andere Mal als Führer der… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Hengist — Hengest (oder Hengist) ist eine semilegendäre Gestalt des 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr., die in zwei voneinander unabhängigen Quellensträngen auftaucht: einmal in der „Finnsage“ als Gefolgsmann des Dänenkönigs Hnæf, das andere Mal als Führer der… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Finn and Hengest — is a study by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Alan Bliss and published posthumously in book form in 1982.Finn and Hengest are two Anglo Saxon heroes appearing in the Old English epic poem Beowulf and in the fragment of The Fight at Finnsburg .… … Wikipedia
List of characters and objects in Beowulf — Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem. Its creation dates to between the 8th cite book | last = Tolkien | first = J.R.R. | authorlink = J.R.R. Tolkien | title = Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics | location = London | publisher = Oxford… … Wikipedia
Finnesburg Fragment — The Finnesburg Fragment is a fragment of an Old English poem of the type called a leoð , or lay. The existing text is a transcript of a loose manuscript folio that was once kept at Lambeth Palace, the London residence of the Archbishops of… … Wikipedia
Denethor — II Personnage de fiction apparaissant dans l œuvre de J. R. R. Tolkien … Wikipédia en Français
Beowulf — (eighth–10th century) The best known and most admired text in OLD ENGLISH literature, Beowulf is an epic poem in 3,182 lines of ALLITERATIVE VERSE recreating the heroic age of Germanic culture, an age in which the lord “ring giver” or “gold… … Encyclopedia of medieval literature
Beowulf — This article is about the epic poem. For the character, see Beowulf (hero). For other uses, see Beowulf (disambiguation). Beowulf first page of Beowulf in Cotton Vitellius A. xv … Wikipedia
Finn (Frisian) — Finn, son of Folcwald, was a legendary Frisian lord. He is mentioned in Widsith, in Beowulf , and in the Finnsburg Fragment. There is also a Finn mentioned in Historia Britonum.He was married to Hildeburh, a sister of the Danish lord Hnæf, and… … Wikipedia
