Beowulf

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Red and Black Publishers, 2007 - Fiction - 183 pages
" 'Tis better to die than to live in shame." The oldest existing story written in Old English, "Beowulf" is the classic tale of courage and honor. In the Great Hall of Hrothgar, King of the Danes, the warrior Beowulf, son of a Swedish King, wages battle with the monster Grendel. The introduction contains a short history of the English language and a description of Anglo-Saxon culture.
 

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Section 1
3
Section 2
15
Section 3
18
Section 4
22
Section 5
29
Section 6
33
Section 7
37
Section 8
53
Section 9
61
Section 10
69
Section 11
101
Section 12
167
Section 13
181
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