Beowulf

Quality:

Beowulf - Old English heroic epic poem. This book is the 68^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books and the 62^nd most popular book in Norwegian Wikipedia. Article “Beowulf” in Norwegian Wikipedia has 25.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 13 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Norwegian) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Norwegian Wikipedia:

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The 4854^th most popular in Norwegian Wikipedia.

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The 4432^nd most editable in Norwegian Wikipedia.

The 62^nd most popular in books in Norwegian Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5029^th most popular in all topics.

The 4182^nd most popular in AI.

The 68^th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article “Beowulf”, its content was written by 80 registered users of Norwegian Wikipedia (4432^nd place) and edited by 3840 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4182^nd place).

Beowulf is on the 62^nd place in local ranking of books in Norwegian Wikipedia and on the 68^th place in global ranking of books in all the time.

The article is cited 142 times in Norwegian Wikipedia and cited 5243 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Norwegian): #994 in December 2005
• Global: #135 in November 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Norwegian): #670 in September 2009
• Global: #851 in March 2008

There are 50 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Beowulf		98.8184
2	Hindi (hi) बियोवुल्फ़		87.1429
3	Hebrew (he) ביאוולף		84.6583
4	Danish (da) Beovulfkvadet		60.7805
5	Slovenian (sl) Beowulf		57.196
6	Spanish (es) Beowulf		52.8611
7	Arabic (ar) بيوولف		51.7001
8	French (fr) Beowulf		50.7906
9	Basque (eu) Beowulf		48.1278
10	Serbian (sr) Беовулф		45.9818

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Beowulf		24 838 209
2	Spanish (es) Beowulf		2 744 656
3	Russian (ru) Беовульф		2 088 912
4	German (de) Beowulf		2 009 600
5	Italian (it) Beowulf		1 589 220
6	Japanese (ja) ベーオウルフ		1 127 897
7	French (fr) Beowulf		865 959
8	Portuguese (pt) Beowulf		840 802
9	Chinese (zh) 貝奧武夫		632 437
10	Polish (pl) Beowulf		606 908

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Beowulf		67 621
2	Russian (ru) Беовульф		7 481
3	German (de) Beowulf		4 750
4	Spanish (es) Beowulf		4 141
5	Italian (it) Beowulf		3 041
6	Japanese (ja) ベーオウルフ		2 854
7	French (fr) Beowulf		2 407
8	Chinese (zh) 貝奧武夫		1 870
9	Portuguese (pt) Beowulf		1 346
10	Polish (pl) Beowulf		1 324

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Beowulf		1 505
2	German (de) Beowulf		265
3	Italian (it) Beowulf		179
4	French (fr) Beowulf		176
5	Spanish (es) Beowulf		146
6	Russian (ru) Беовульф		134
7	Dutch (nl) Beowulf (gedicht)		114
8	Hebrew (he) ביאוולף		84
9	Norwegian (no) Beowulf		80
10	Swedish (sv) Beowulf		80

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Catalan (ca) Beowulf		3
2	English (en) Beowulf		3
3	Slovenian (sl) Beowulf		2
4	German (de) Beowulf		1
5	Hebrew (he) ביאוולף		1
6	Italian (it) Beowulf		1
7	Serbian (sr) Беовулф		1
8	Thai (th) เบวูล์ฟ		1
9	Arabic (ar) بيوولف		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Beovulf		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information