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Beowulf

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Beowulf"

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Word	Definition
hardrednoun	A male given name from Old English.
hrothgarnoun	A semi-legendary Danish king living around the early sixth century CE.
old englishnoun	(linguistics, history) The ancestor language of Modern English, also called Anglo-Saxon, spoken in most of Britain from about 400 to 1100.
old norwegiannoun	The Old Norse language as spoken and written in Norway in the Middle Ages.
mabinogionnoun	The earliest prose literature of Britain, compiled in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions by medieval Welsh authors.
anglo-saxonnoun	A member of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century.
elder futharknoun	An ancient Germanic alphabetic writing system originating around the 2nd century CE in Northern Europe.
saganoun	Something with the qualities of such a saga; an epic, a long story.
proto-germanicnoun	Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English.
skaldnoun	(historical) A Nordic poet of the Viking Age.
ur-germanicnoun	(linguistics) Hypothetical prehistoric ancestor language of all Germanic languages, including English; Proto-Germanic.
semi-saxonnoun	(obsolete) Relating to Late Old English and early Middle English, the form of the English language belonging to the period from 1100 to either c. 1200, 1230, or 1250 (depending on the author).
common germanicnoun	Proto-Germanic language.
proto-norsenoun	An Indo-European language spoken in Scandinavia and ancestral to Old Norse that evolved from Proto-Germanic over the first centuries AD.
old icelandicnoun	The Old Norse language as spoken and written in Iceland in the Middle Ages, quite similar to Old Norwegian, but differing most markedly in orthography and, to a lesser extent, in phonology.
medieval englishnoun	Middle English.
old cornishnoun	An early form of the Cornish language, used circa 800-1200 AD.
heathenrynoun	Any modern reconstruction of one of these religions; Germanic neopaganism.
beothicknoun	Alternative form of Beothuk. [(ethnology) A member of one of the historical aboriginal peoples of Canada.]
saxonnoun	A member of an ancient West Germanic tribe that lived at the eastern North Sea coast and south of it.