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Beowulf

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Preface
11:43
Chapters I - III
11:01
Chapters IV - VI
11:09
Chapters VII - IX
11:40
Chapters X - XII
14:33
Chapters XIII - XV
12:14
Chapters XVI - XVIII
12:06
Chapters XIX - XXI
11:25
Chapters XXII - XXIV
15:36
Chapters XXV - XXVII
14:34
Chapters XXVIII - XXX
14:53
Chapters XXXI - XXXIII
14:31
Chapters XXXIV - XXXVI
18:21
Chapters XXXVII - XXXIX
11:53
Chapters XL - XLIII
17:36

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This Old English epic, the longest and greatest poem to survive from Anglo-Saxon England, follows a Geatish hero across a lifetime of monster-fighting. As a young warrior, Beowulf sails to Denmark to rid King Hrothgar's mead-hall of Grendel, a man-eating creature that stalks the night, then must face Grendel's vengeful mother in her lair beneath a haunted lake. Fifty years later, now an aged king, he meets his end battling a dragon roused by a stolen cup. Beneath the fights runs a somber meditation on courage, loyalty, fate, and the passing of earthly glory. J. Lesslie Hall's imitative-verse translation carries the poem's heavy alliterative music into English. This free PDF and EPUB edition offers a readable way into the foundation of English literature.