About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Kenning, List of kennings, Beowulf, Old English literature, Bede, Caedmon's Hymn, Dream of the Rood, Ruthwell Cross, Cynewulf, The Battle of Maldon, Christ II, Finnesburg Fragment, Elene, Maxims, Christ and Satan, Wulf and Eadwacer, The Seafarer, Judith, The Husband's Message, The Ruin, Daniel, Exeter Book, Juliana, Caedmon manuscript, The Rime of King William, The Phoenix, Andreas, Anglo-Saxon poetic line, Metres of Boethius, Soul and Body, Deor, Guthlac poems A and B, Brussels Cross, Waldere, Vercelli Book, Exodus, Genesis B, Rune Poems, The Wanderer, Widsith, Hama, Nowell Codex, Scop, Nine Herbs Charm, Names of God in Old English poetry, Solomon and Saturn, The Fortunes of Men, AEcerbot, Christ III, Seasons for Fasting, The Rhyming Poem, Vainglory, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, The Fates of the Apostles, Wio faerstice, For a Swarm of Bees. Excerpt: Beowulf (; in Old English or, literally "bee wolf" i.e. "bee hunter," a kenning for "bear") is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through the building which housed a collection of medieval manuscripts that had been assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. It fell into obscurity for many decades, and its existence did not become widely known again until it was printed in 1815 in an edition prepared by the Icelandic scholar Grimur Jonsson Thorkelin. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who has been attacking the resident warriors of th...
