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Encyclopedia > Beowulf (disambiguation)

For the person Beowulf, see Beowulf (hero)
For the poem named after this character, see Beowulf.
For the high-performance design for computer clusters, see Beowulf (computing).
For information on the 1999 DVD release motion picture Beowulf, see Beowulf (1999 film).
For information on the 2007 motion picture Beowulf, see Beowulf (2007 film).
For the Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu video game character named Beowulf, (or "Beowolf"), see Beowulf (Fire Emblem).
For the Buck Rogers XXVC scenario character, see Buck Rogers XXVC.
For the Los Angeles-based heavy metal band, see Beowulf.

This is a disambiguation page — a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.

Categories: Disambiguation Beowulf is the hero of the Anglo-Saxon poem titled after him (see Beowulf). ... The first page of Beowulf This article describes Beowulf, the epic poem. ... Linux Cluster at Purdue University A computer cluster is a group of loosely coupled computers that work together closely so that in many respects it can be viewed as though it were a single computer. ... The Borg, a 52-node Beowulf cluster used by the McGill University pulsar group to search for pulsations from binary pulsars. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Beowulf DVD cover Beowulf is a 1999 action movie loosely based on the epic Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf. ... 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The long gestating adaptation of the poem was written by Roger Avary and Neil Gaiman and was originally intended to be directed by Avary. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Buck Rogers XXVC is a game setting created by TSR, Inc. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ...

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Beowulf (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (293 words)
	Beowulf is the hero of an Old English epic poem.
	Beowulf (hero), the main character of the epic poem
	Beowulf (comics), a 1970s comic book published by DC Comics.

Beowulf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4271 words)
	Beowulf is one of the oldest surviving epic poems in what is identifiable as an early form of the English language.
	Beowulf's men draw their swords and rush to his help, but there is a type of magic which aids Grendel and makes it impossible for swords to hurt him.
	Beowulf and his warriors come to fight the dragon, but only one of the warriors, a brave young man named Wiglaf, stays to help Beowulf, because the rest are too afraid.

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