My terrific wall by Janne Midttun Hedemann https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2017-05-29 07:35:15 UTC 2025-11-02 09:28:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png Facts about poem Beowulf janne_midttun_hedemann https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208182 2017-05-29 07:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208182 https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208496 Geats= southwest Sweden]]> 2017-05-29 07:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208496 It may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208533 2017-05-29 07:38:35 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208533 the aouther is uknown https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208558 2017-05-29 07:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208558 Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208571 2017-05-29 07:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208571 The poem is known only from a single manuscript, which is estimated to date from close to AD 1000 https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208718 2017-05-29 07:39:39 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208718 beowulf was a hero and a king and died at 70 https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208750 2017-05-29 07:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208750 The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208897 2017-05-29 07:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208897 the language is Anglo-Saxon (Also called Old English) https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208993 2017-05-29 07:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174208993 tense ยท Past, but with digressions into the distant past and predictions of the future https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174209112 2017-05-29 07:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174209112 It has no title in the original manuscript but has became known by the stories protagonist https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174209238 2017-05-29 07:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174209238 The original poem exists only in manuscript form https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174209241 2017-05-29 07:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174209241 https://padlet.com/janne_midttun_hedemann/cxjvgm0u6pun/wish/174209826 The only known existing copy of Beowulf is now in the British Library in London

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