How to pronounce beowulf
Listen to beowulf in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“beowulf” in real sentences
133 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Grendel from from Beowulf.
British Library · hear it here
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in the Beowulf story: chaos, danger, the unknown.
TED · hear it here
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Koran, the Beowulf manuscript, a 10th or 11th century.
British Library · hear it here
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the beowulf poem but much more closely although you wouldn't quite know it from watching this
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of beowulf. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.