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Beowulf - Old English

Beowulf (Old English Version)

(17658 words/128516 characters)

Examples

Basic Examples

Retrieve the ResourceObject:

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ResourceObject["Beowulf - Old English"]
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View the data:

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Snippet[ResourceData["Beowulf - Old English"], 19]
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Visualization

Create a word cloud:

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WordCloud[ResourceData["Beowulf - Old English"]]
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Compare lengths of words:

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With[{words = TextWords[ResourceData["Beowulf - Old English"]]}, Histogram[(StringLength /@ words), PlotRange -> Full]]
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Wolfram Research, "Beowulf - Old English" from the Wolfram Data Repository (2017)   https://doi.org/10.24097/wolfram.41065.data

Data Resource History

  • Date Created:

Source Metadata

  • Title: Beowulf
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date: -950
  • Description: The oldest surviving long poem in Old English about Beowulf, a warrior, battling a monster known as a Grendel.
  • Language: Old English

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Publisher Information

  • Publisher of Record: Wolfram Research