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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...
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
1999]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being warned by a fortune-teller that their fight against legendary creatures is doomed to failure unless they have a 13th warrior, a travelling ambassador (Banderas) is given no choice but to join a group of fierce fighters.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition
Physical Desc
xiv, 425 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if he entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot.
But the commentary...
4) Beowulf
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A motion-capture animated film. In the age of heroes comes the mightiest warrior of them all, Beowulf. After destroying the overpowering demon Grendel, he incurs the undying wrath of the beast's ruthlessly seductive mother, who will use any means possible to ensure revenge. The ensuing epic battle resonate throughout the ages.
6) 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...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The bloody tale of warrior Beowulf's battle with Grendel, a murderous troll, to save King Hrothgar's kingdom, which was destroyed by the troll and his men.
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.; [ill.; Heaney English translation].
Physical Desc
xxvii, 260 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother, with illustration of ancient artifacts from the time period.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1976
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
193 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings--but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea.
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxviii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney's translation 'accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review). The translation that "rides boldly through the reefs of scholarship' (The Observer) is combined with first-rate annotation. No reading knowledge of Old English is assumed. Heaney's clear and insightful introduction to...
11) Beowulf
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[Mitchell translation].
Physical Desc
xxxi, 225 pages : map, genealogical tables ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures--a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel's monstrous mother, and a dragon--and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter. If the definition of a superhero is "someone who uses his special powers to fight evil," then Beowulf is our first English superhero story, and arguably our best. It is also a deeply pious poem, so bold in its reverence for a...
12) Beowulf
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st Candlewick Press ed., Reinforced trade ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
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