Ett fruktansvärt monster sprider skräck i Danmark. Ingen har lyckats besegra det. Då kommer Beowulf och hans män. Beowulf ger sig iväg ensam för att strida. Skall han lyckas? Den här hjältesagan finns i olika utgåvor. Den här är lättläst och rikligt illustrerad. [Barnbokskatalogen].
Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.
The most revered work composed in Old English,Beowulfis one of the landmarks of European literature. This handbook supplies a wealth of insights into all major aspects of this wondrous poem and its scholarly tradition.
As the poem's position in academic and popular culture has become more entrenched, readers throughout the twentieth century ... see Kathleen Forni, Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film (New York: Routledge, ...
A generous, energetic, engaging work... will be important to Beowulf study for years to come. THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW
Provides the Old English text of the epic poem faced with a page in which almost every word is glossed.
The Anglo-Saxon poem recounting the story of Beowulf's battle with the monster, Grendel, is retold in the style of modern verse
Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition
Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.
A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife "Brash and belligerent, lunatic and invigorating, with passages of sublime poetry punctuated by obscenities and social-media shorthand." ...
This impressive volume selects over one hundred works of critical commentary from the vast body of scholarship on Beowulf - including English translations from German, Danish, Latin and Spanish - from the poem's first mention in 1705 to the ...