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Beowulf: a verse translation

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 153 KB
Edition: Bilingual Edition
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Presents the classic poem in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters, returns home to become his own people's greatest king, and then faces a murderous dragon to protect them. Presented in the original Old English with a verse translation on facing pages.

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