What literary text could seem further from reality these days than Beowulf — that approximately 1,500-year-old Anglo Saxon verse epic about a Scandinavian hero fighting monsters that’s known mainly by ...
An illustration of the eponymous hero fighting the dragon, next to a manuscript of Beowulf from circa AD 1000, located in the British Library (iStock/Getty) The tale describes a battle with three ...
Beowulf is one of the oldest and most translated pieces of Old English literature. If you ever had to study it in high school, it’s likely the weighty poetics and narrative detours bogged down your ...
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