Beowulf

textual humanities text poem core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

Old English poetic tradition, textual tradition

Canon Rationale

A foundational Old English poem, included for heroic narrative, monster combat, kingship, elegy, manuscript survival, Germanic legend, and English literary history.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 38.

Evidence

handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Beowulf'.
museum record: Project Gutenberg, 'Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem by J. Lesslie Hall', eBook no. 16328.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency, contested dating

Completion unit: read the full poem in a specified translation or Old English edition.