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Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st bilingual ed.; [Heaney translation].
Physical Desc
xxx, 213 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In...
2) Beowulf
Pub. Date
1815
Edition
[English translation, translator unknown].
Physical Desc
Also available online.
Language
English
Description
An Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, comes to the help of Hroðgar (the king of the Danes), whose mead hall (Heorot) has been under attack by Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland...
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