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Beowulf [electronic resource] / translated by Seamus Heaney.

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[Minneapolis, Minn.] : HighBridge Co., 2006.

Heroes -- Poetry.

Epic poetry, English (Old) -- Translations.

Monsters -- Poetry.

Dragons -- Poetry.

Scandinavia -- Poetry.

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9781598871524 (electronic audio book)

1598871528 (electronic audio book)

Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's new translation of Beowulf comes to life in this gripping audio. Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac 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 then returns to his own country and lives to old age before dying in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath.

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