Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Beowulf and Old Norse

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Beowulf and Old Norse

Beowulf vs. Old Norse

Beowulf is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

Similarities between Beowulf and Old Norse

Beowulf and Old Norse have 9 things in common (in Unionpedia): Gamla Uppsala, Geats, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Kenning, Norse clans, Old English, Old Norse, Sagas of Icelanders, Snorri Sturluson.

Gamla Uppsala

Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala) is a parish and a village outside Uppsala in Sweden.

Beowulf and Gamla Uppsala · Gamla Uppsala and Old Norse · See more »

Geats

The Geats (gēatas; gautar; götar), sometimes called Goths, were a North Germanic tribe who inhabited italic ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden.

Beowulf and Geats · Geats and Old Norse · See more »

Guðbrandur Vigfússon

Guðbrandur Vigfússon, known in English as Gudbrand Vigfusson, (13 March 1827 – 31 January 1889) was one of the foremost Scandinavian scholars of the 19th century.

Beowulf and Guðbrandur Vigfússon · Guðbrandur Vigfússon and Old Norse · See more »

Kenning

A kenning (Old Norse pronunciation:, Modern Icelandic pronunciation) is a type of circumlocution, in the form of a compound that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun.

Beowulf and Kenning · Kenning and Old Norse · See more »

Norse clans

The Scandinavian clan or ætt/ätt (pronounced in Old Norse) was a social group based on common descent.

Beowulf and Norse clans · Norse clans and Old Norse · See more »

Old English

Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

Beowulf and Old English · Old English and Old Norse · See more »

Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

Beowulf and Old Norse · Old Norse and Old Norse · See more »

Sagas of Icelanders

The Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), also known as family sagas, are prose narratives mostly based on historical events that mostly took place in Iceland in the 9th, 10th, and early 11th centuries, during the so-called Saga Age.

Beowulf and Sagas of Icelanders · Old Norse and Sagas of Icelanders · See more »

Snorri Sturluson

Snorri Sturluson (1179 – 23 September 1241) was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician.

Beowulf and Snorri Sturluson · Old Norse and Snorri Sturluson · See more »

The list above answers the following questions

Beowulf and Old Norse Comparison

Beowulf has 190 relations, while Old Norse has 182. As they have in common 9, the Jaccard index is 2.42% = 9 / (190 + 182).

References

This article shows the relationship between Beowulf and Old Norse. To access each article from which the information was extracted, please visit:

Hey! We are on Facebook now! »