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Annals of Lund
The Annals of Lund (Danish: Lundeårbogen, Latin: Annales Lundenses) is a Latin manuscript written in Lund around 1250-1307.
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Arngrímur Jónsson
Arngrímur Jónsson the Learned (Arngrímur Jónsson hinn lærði; 1568 – 27 June 1648) was an Icelandic scholar and an apologist.
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Öland
Öland (known in Latin as Oelandia, and sometimes written Øland in other Scandinavian languages, and Oland internationally) is the second largest Swedish island and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden.
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Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern
The Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern was a 6th-century battle recorded in the Norse sagas and referred to in the Old English epic Beowulf.
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Beowulf
Beowulf is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.
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Beowulf (2007 film)
Beowulf is a 2007 British-American 3D animated epic fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, based on the Old English epic poem of the same name.
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Beowulf (hero)
Beowulf (Old English: Bēoƿulf) is a legendary Geatish hero in the epic poem named after him, one of the oldest surviving pieces of literature in the English language.
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Birger Nerman
Birger Nerman (6 October 1888 – 22 August 1971) was a Swedish archaeologist, professor, and author.
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Burton Raffel
Burton Nathan Raffel (April 27, 1928 – September 29, 2015) was a translator, a poet and a teacher.
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Chronicon Lethrense
Chronicon Lethrense (Danish: Lejrekrøniken English: Chronicle of Lejre/Leire) is a small Danish medieval work from the 12th century, written in Latin.
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Conjecture (textual criticism)
Conjecture (conjectural emendation) is a critical reconstruction of the original reading of a clearly corrupt, contaminated, nonsensical or illegible textual fragment.
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Danes (Germanic tribe)
The Danes were a North Germanic tribe inhabiting southern Scandinavia, including the area now comprising Denmark proper, during the Nordic Iron Age and the Viking Age.
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Eadgils
Eadgils, Adils, Aðils, Adillus, Aðísl at Uppsölum, Athisl, Athislus or Adhel was a semi-legendary king of Sweden, who is estimated to have lived during the 6th century.
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Francis Barton Gummere
Francis Barton Gummere (b. Burlington, New Jersey March 6, 1855 - d. Haverford, Pennsylvania May 30, 1919) was an influential scholar of folklore and ancient languages, a student of Francis James Child.
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Fróði
Fróði (Frōði; Frōda; Middle High German: Vruote) is the name of a number of legendary Danish kings in various texts including Beowulf, Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda and his Ynglinga saga, Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum, and the Grottasöngr.
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Frisia
Frisia (Fryslân, Dutch and Friesland) is a coastal region along the southeastern corner of the North Sea in what today is mostly a large part of the Netherlands, including modern Friesland, and smaller parts of northern Germany.
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Fyris
Fyrisån (the Fyris river) is a river in the Swedish province of Uppland, which passes through the city of Uppsala and ends in Lake Mälaren.
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Fyrisvellir
Fyrisvellir, Fyris Wolds or Fyrisvallarna was the marshy plain (vellir) south of Gamla Uppsala where travellers had to leave the ships on the river Fyris (Fyrisån) and walk to the Temple at Uppsala and the hall of the Swedish king.
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Gamla Uppsala
Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden.
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Gesta Danorum
Gesta Danorum ("Deeds of the Danes") is a patriotic work of Danish history, by the 13th century author Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Literate", literally "the Grammarian").
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Grottasöngr
Grottasöngr or the Song of Grótti is an Old Norse poem, sometimes counted among the poems of the Poetic Edda as it appears in manuscripts that are later than the Codex Regius.
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Half-elf
In Norse mythology, a half-elf is the offspring of an elf and a human.
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Halfdan Scylding
Halfdan (Healfdene, Medieval, Proto-Norse: *Halbadaniz, "half Dane") was a late 5th and early 6th century legendary Danish king of the Scylding (Skjöldung) lineage, the son of king named Fróði in many accounts, noted mainly as the father to the two kings who succeeded him in the rule of Denmark, kings named Hroðgar and Halga in the Old English poem Beowulf and named Hróar and Helgi in Old Norse accounts.
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Halga
Halga, Helgi, Helghe or Helgo was a legendary Danish king living in the early 9th century.
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Halland
is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish), on the western coast of Sweden.
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Heorot
Heorot, also Herot, is a mead-hall described in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf as "the foremost of halls under heaven." It served as a palace for King Hroðgar, a legendary Danish king of the sixth century.
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Heoroweard
Heoroweard is a character who appears in Beowulf and also in Norse legends, where he is named Hjörvarðr or Hiartuar.
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Hothbrodd
Hothbrodd was a legendary Norse hero, details of whose life appear in several related variations.
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Hrólfr Kraki
Hrólfr Kraki, Hroðulf, Rolfo, Roluo, Rolf Krage (early 6th century) was a legendary Danish king who appears in both Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian tradition.
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Hrólfs saga kraka
Hrólfs saga kraka, the Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, is a late legendary saga on the adventures of Hrólfr Kraki and his clan, the Skjöldungs.
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Hrothgar
Hrothgar (Hrōðgār; Hróarr) was a legendary Danish king living in the early 6th century.
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Hygelac
Hygelac (Hygelāc; Hugleikr; italic; Ch(l)ochilaicus; died 521) was a king of the Geats according to the poem Beowulf.
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Iceland
Iceland is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic, with a population of and an area of, making it the most sparsely populated country in Europe.
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John Lesslie Hall
John Lesslie Hall (March 2, 1856 – February 23, 1928), also known as J. Lesslie Hall, was an American literary scholar and poet known for his translation of Beowulf.
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Lejre
Lejre is a town with a population of 2,415 (1 January 2015) in Lejre Municipality (Danish, kommune) on the island of Zealand in east Denmark.
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Lolland
Lolland (formerly spelled Laaland, literally "low land") is the fourth largest island of Denmark, with an area of.
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Ohthere
Ohthere (also Ohtere), Old Norse Óttarr vendilkráka (Vendelcrow; in Modern Swedish Ottar Vendelkråka) is a semi-legendary king of Sweden of the house of Scylfings, who would have lived during the 6th century (fl. c. 515 – c. 530, Encyclopedia Nordisk familjebok).
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Onela
Onela was according to Beowulf a Swedish king, the son of Ongentheow and the brother of Ohthere.
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Robert Zemeckis
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an American screenwriter and filmmaker frequently credited as an innovator in visual effects.
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Saxons
The Saxons (Saxones, Sachsen, Seaxe, Sahson, Sassen, Saksen) were a Germanic people whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, Saxonia) near the North Sea coast of what is now Germany.
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Scandinavian literature
Scandinavian literature or Nordic literature is the literature in the languages of the Nordic countries of Northern Europe.
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Skáldskaparmál
The second part of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda the Skáldskaparmál ("language of poetry"; c. 50,000 words) is effectively a dialogue between Ægir, the Norse god of the sea, and Bragi, the god of poetry, in which both Norse mythology and discourse on the nature of poetry are intertwined.
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Skjöldunga saga
The Skjöldunga saga was an Old Norse Legendary saga.
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Skuld (princess)
Skuld was a princess of Scandinavian legend who married Heoroweard and encouraged him to kill Hroðulf (Hrólfr Kraki).
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Snorri Sturluson
Snorri Sturluson (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.
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Svipdagr
Svipdagr (Old Norse "sudden day"Orchard (1997:157).) is the hero of the two Old Norse Eddaic poems Grógaldr and Fjölsvinnsmál, which are contained within the body of one work; Svipdagsmál.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Thurø
Thurø is a small Danish island in the south-east of Funen and belongs to the Svendborg municipality.
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Tragic hero
A tragic hero is the protagonist of a tragedy in drama.
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Uppsala
Uppsala (older spelling Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.
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Vöggr
Vöggr, Vogg, Wigg or Wigge was a young 6th century man in Scandinavian legend notable for giving Hrólfr Kraki (Hroðulf in Beowulf) his cognomen kraki, and for avenging his death.
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Yngling
The Ynglings were the oldest known Scandinavian dynasty, originating from Sweden.
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Ynglinga saga
Ynglinga saga is a legendary saga, originally written in Old Norse by the Icelandic poet and historian Snorri Sturluson about 1225.
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