Widsith Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere Deor Done Into Common English After the Old Manner (Hardcover)

1921. The epic poem of war and adventure, Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. No one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.