Presents a guide to "Beowulf" and provides a list of characters, a summary and analysis, and numerous essays from various authors who offer their own critical views.

From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision. It is as if Tolkien entered into the imagined past: standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark, listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth, or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot. But the...

Set in early Christian England, this epic is the story of a hero's triumph over a legendary monster.

A verse translation of the Old English epic poem about a Danish hero who saves his people from a monster.

"Use ecstatic trance to journey to the time of Beowulf and learn first hand the ancient magic of the early Nordic people"-- Provided by publisher.

Presents a 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.