Beowulf
Author : John Lesslie Hall
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Dragons
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Author : John Lesslie Hall
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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Dragons
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Author : John D Niles
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393330106
Enhancing Heaneys masterful bestselling translation of this classic Old English poem, Niless illustrations help modern-day readers visualize the story by bringing it to life.
Author : John Mitchell Kemble
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 21,29 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Constance Hieatt
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 11,13 MB
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307434826
Unique and beautiful, Beowulf brings to life a society of violence and honor, fierce warriors and bloody battles, deadly monsters and famous swords. Written by an unknown poet in about the eighth century, this masterpiece of Anglo-Saxton literature transforms legends, myth, history, and ancient songs into the richly colored tale of the hero Beowulf, the loathsome man-eater Grendel, his vengeful water-hag mother, and a treasure-hoarding dragon. The earliest surviving epic poem in any modern European language. Beowulf is a stirring portrait of a heroic world–somber, vast, and magnificent.
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 1885
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Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0486111105
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
Author : John Mitchell Kemble
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Page : 384 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 1837
Category : Beowulf
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 20,40 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Dragons
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Dragons
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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 20,33 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781492264712
Beowulf By Anonymous Translated by Francis Barton Gummere Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem 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. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. The poem's existence for its first seven centuries or so made no impression on writers and scholars, and besides a brief mention in a 1705 catalogue by Humfrey Wanley it was not studied until the end of the end of the eighteenth century, and not published in its entirety until the 1815 edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grimur Jonsson Thorkelin. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroogar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall, in Heorot, has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants bury him in a tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland.