Beowulf: A New Verse Translation

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Seamus Heaney
Baker & Taylor, CATS, Nov 3, 2008 - Poetry - 213 pages
The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet presents a faithful, new translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic chronicling the heroic adventures of Beowulf, the Scandinavian warrior who saves his people from the ravages of the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother. Winner of the Whitbread Award. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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