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Beowa
Beowa, Beaw, Beow, Beo or Bedwig is a figure in Anglo-Saxon paganism associated with barley and agriculture. The figure is attested in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies as they were extended in the age of Alfred, where Beowa is inserted as the son of Scyld and the grandson of Sceafa, in lineages carried back to Adam.〔Kathleen Herbert, ''Looking for the Lost Gods of England'', 1994:15, noted by John Grigsby, ''Beowulf & Grendel''2005:64.〕 Connections have been proposed between the figure of Beowa and the hero Beowulf of the poem of the same name and English folk song figure John Barleycorn. ==Etymology== ''Beow'' is an Old English word for barley. In the Anglo-Saxon genealogies, Beowa is the son or grandson of Sceafa, the Old English word for sheaf. The noun ''beow'' has an Old Norse parallel in ''Bygg'', the word for "grain." Related comparisons have been made between the figure of Beow and Byggvir, attested in the ''Prose Edda'' as a servant of the god Freyr.〔Alexander (2002:28).〕
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