Both Uses
Beowulf
in
The Catcher in the Rye
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- "I passed English all right," I said, "because I had all that Beowulf and Lord Randal My Son stuff when I was at the Whooton School.†
p. 15.1
- Beowulf, and old Grendel, and Lord Randal My Son, and all those things.†
p. 144.5 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(Beowulf) the legendary hero of an anonymous Old English epic poem composed in the early 8th century; he slays a monster and becomes king but dies fighting a dragon
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)