Beowulf
Book Details
Author(s)
Burton Raffel, Gummere
Publisher
IndoEuropeanPublishing.com
ISBN / ASIN
1604442980
ISBN-13
9781604442984
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Description
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.
