Beowulf

Beowulf & Beyond is the first and only set of poetic translations to include not only Beowulf but all of the best-known works of Anglo-Saxon literature in a single convenient volume.

The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work, very distinctive in its mode, completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.This edition is twofold, for there exists...

Fortellingen om Beowulf er et gammelt angelsaksisk heltekvad fra 700-tallet, som er i slekt med norrøn heltediktning. Det forteller om halsbrekkende kamper mot troll og monstre. Handlingen er lagt til det som i dag er Danmark og Sverige.

Tells the story of the heroic Beowulf and of his battles, first with the monster Grendel, who has laid waste to the great hall of the Danish king Hrothgar, then with Grendel's avenging mother, and finally with a dragon that threatens to devastate...