Beowulf
245 pages
|Published: 28 Oct 2000
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ISBN: 9780393320978
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 17 February 2001
Description
Beowulf is a major epic of Anglo-Saxon literature, probably composed between the first half of the seventh century and the end of the first millennium. The poem was inspired by Germanic and Anglo-Saxon oral tradition recounting the exploits of Beowulf, the hero who gave his name to the poem. Here, it's transcribed as a verse epic, onto which are grafted Christian additions.