Beowulf is an Old English epic poem named after its main character, who fights a series of monsters in pre-Christian Scandinavia.
Bibliographic notesBeowulf survived to the present day via a single manuscript produced around the year 1000, but the poem may have been created and transmitted orally before it was written down. Many recent editions translate the poem into more modern English. A number of freer adaptations of the poem can be found under the subject Beowulf, King of the Geats.
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Beowulf (in modern and old English, with additional materials and commentary), ed. by Benjamin Slade (frame-dependent HTML at heorot.dk)
Some of these editions have notes in modern English.
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