Beowulf: The Critical Heritage by Tom Shippey, Andreas Haarder

Beowulf: The Critical Heritage

Tom Shippey, Andreas Haarder

612 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction adventurous informative medium-paced
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Beowulf is the oldest and most complete epic poem in any non-Classical European language. Our only manuscript, written in Old English, dates from close to the year 1000. However, the poem remained effectively unknown even to scholars until the yea...

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