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Re:Lithuanian is riddled with references to bees by jjtheblunt on Monday March 19, 2018 @07:31PM (#16624420)
Citation for the claim that "beowulf" is "bee-hunter" ?

I'd learned from a graduate school course in germanic linguistics it was likely bear-wolf...but i'm curious where you got your claim.

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Re:Lithuanian is riddled with references to bees by stochastic_monk on Monday March 19, 2018 @07:50PM (#16624558)
According to Wikipedia [0], Bee-Hunter is one of several competing etymologies, additionally including Bee-Wolf, Bear-Hunter, Thor-wolf, Beow-wolf, and Woodpecker.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_(hero)

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