Beowulf, composed between the seventh and tenth century, is the
elegaic narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero
who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel,
and, later, from Grendel's mother. He returns to his own country
and dies in old age in a vivid battle against a dragon. The poem is
about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and living on in
the exhausted aftermath. Heaney's celebrated translation honours
what is remote and intuits what is uncannily familiar, at the end
of the twentieth century, in this founding masterpiece of English
poetry. Now, for the first time, the Old English text - which
survived only in a single scorched manuscript, now held in the
British Museum - can be read in conjunction with the translation on
facing pages.
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