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1 Story

• 1.1 Structured by battles
  • 1.1.1 First battle: Grendel
  • 1.1.2 Second battle: Grendel's mother
  • 1.1.3 Third battle: The dragon
• 1.2 Structured by funerals
  • 1.2.1 First Funeral: Scyld Scefing (lines 1–52)
  • 1.2.2 Second Funeral: Hildeburg’s kin (lines 1107–24)
  • 1.2.3 Controversial Funeral: Lay of the Last Survivor (lines 2247–66)
  • 1.2.4 Third Funeral: Beowulf (lines 3137–82)

2 Historical background

3 Sources and analogues

4 The Beowulf manuscript

• 4.1 Provenance
• 4.2 Writing
• 4.3 Transcription

5 Authorship and date

• 5.1 Debate over oral tradition
• 5.2 Dialect

6 Form and metre

7 Interpretation and criticism

8 Translations and glossaries

9 Artistic adaptations

10 Notes

11 Bibliography

• 11.1 Dictionaries
• 11.2 Text
• 11.3 Audio
• 11.4 Scholarship

12 References

13 External links