Burton Raffel

The oldest extant poem in a modern European language chronicles a feudal newly Christianized world still populated by the monsters and demons of the ancient world. Reprint.

Beowulf

The oldest extant poem in a modern European language chronicles a feudal newly Christianized world still populated by the monsters and demons of the ancient world.

Jazelle H

Beowulf is the conventional title of 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. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century.

Beowulf

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