by Lily January 26, 2005
Get the Browzy mug.Referring to that creepy "almost real but not quite" look when too much 3D graphics is used to enhance movie object. This term comes from the movie Beowulf (2007) where 3D gives Ray Winstone, Angelina Jolie and other actors a very creepy, nearly-real-but-still-fake appearance.
"I hate it when those movie produces use WAY too much 3D in their movies... it makes the actors look creepy."
"Like the Beowulf Effect?"
"Exactly!"
"Like the Beowulf Effect?"
"Exactly!"
by Core2Extremist December 26, 2007
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Beowulf is one of the oldest surviving epic poems in what is identifiable as an early form of the English language. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of a Germanic tribe from southern Sweden called the Geats, travels to Denmark to help defeat a monster named Grendel. This poem, about Danish and Swedish kings and heroes, was preserved in England because the English people are descendants of Germanic tribes called the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. Jutes and northern Saxon tribes came from what is now southern Denmark and northern Germany. Thus, Beowulf tells a story about the old days in their homeland.
The poem is a work of fiction, but it mentions a historic event, the raid by king Hygelac into Frisia, ca 516. Several of the personalities of Beowulf (e.g., Hrothgar, Hrothulf and Ohthere), clans (e.g. Scyldings, Scylfings and Wulfings) and some of the events (e.g. the Battle on the Ice) also appear in early Scandinavian sources, such as the Prose Edda, Gesta Danorum, the legendary sagas, etc. In these sources, especially the Hrólf Kraki tales deal with the same set of people in Denmark and Sweden (see Origins for Beowulf and Hrólf Kraki).
Consequently, many people and events depicted in the epic were probably real, dating from between 450 and 600 in Denmark and southern Sweden (Geats and Swedes). As far as Sweden is concerned, this dating has been confirmed by archaeological excavations of the barrows indicated by Snorri Sturluson and by Swedish tradition as the graves of Eadgils and Ohthere in Uppland. Like the Finnsburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been used as a source of information about Scandinavian personalities such as Eadgils and Hygelac, and about continental Germanic personalities such as Offa, king of the continental Angles.
The poem is a work of fiction, but it mentions a historic event, the raid by king Hygelac into Frisia, ca 516. Several of the personalities of Beowulf (e.g., Hrothgar, Hrothulf and Ohthere), clans (e.g. Scyldings, Scylfings and Wulfings) and some of the events (e.g. the Battle on the Ice) also appear in early Scandinavian sources, such as the Prose Edda, Gesta Danorum, the legendary sagas, etc. In these sources, especially the Hrólf Kraki tales deal with the same set of people in Denmark and Sweden (see Origins for Beowulf and Hrólf Kraki).
Consequently, many people and events depicted in the epic were probably real, dating from between 450 and 600 in Denmark and southern Sweden (Geats and Swedes). As far as Sweden is concerned, this dating has been confirmed by archaeological excavations of the barrows indicated by Snorri Sturluson and by Swedish tradition as the graves of Eadgils and Ohthere in Uppland. Like the Finnsburg Fragment and several shorter surviving poems, Beowulf has consequently been used as a source of information about Scandinavian personalities such as Eadgils and Hygelac, and about continental Germanic personalities such as Offa, king of the continental Angles.
by Neo_Beowulf September 4, 2006
Get the beowulf mug.\beeyow, byow\ n (plural form add)-en (Present (=P)ese, related to coupiown)
the expression of the interjection with the same name
\beeyow, byow\ vb
to express the interjection with the same name
\beew\ interjection
an expression of joy or utter randomness, pronounced in a quick, high pitched siren that is used to startle people and start conversations
the expression of the interjection with the same name
\beeyow, byow\ vb
to express the interjection with the same name
\beew\ interjection
an expression of joy or utter randomness, pronounced in a quick, high pitched siren that is used to startle people and start conversations
The boy made a beow that rang through the country, freeing the slaves and destroying the evil empire of coupiown doom.
Right before they sentenced him to his execution, the little boy gathered his strength and beowed very loudly.
"BEOW!!!!!" said the little boy, and everybody lived happily ever after. The End. =D =P
Right before they sentenced him to his execution, the little boy gathered his strength and beowed very loudly.
"BEOW!!!!!" said the little boy, and everybody lived happily ever after. The End. =D =P
by Nolen J. Heju April 24, 2008
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Get the I Am Beowulf mug.A usually drunken Irish man with the inclination to cause as much ruckus as possible. Usually non threatening, but a text book messer.
by daithibowzy October 22, 2016
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3. a person who is being a bitch about something all the time for no reason
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3. a person who is being a bitch about something all the time for no reason
by Juan Ponce Del Leon June 29, 2009
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