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Free Download Francis Barton Gummere, "Beowulf"
English | 2007 | pages: 99 | ISBN: 0979181313 | PDF | 1,6 mb
" ‘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.

Free Download Beowulf: A Verse Translation: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions), 2nd Edition edited by Daniel Donoghue, translated by Seamus Heaney
English | January 30, 2019 | ISBN: 0393938379 | True EPUB/PDF | 344 pages | 22.1/136 MB
"Accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right." ―New York Times Book Review

Free Download Elizabeth Marshall, "Wolves in Beowulf and Other Old English Texts "
English | ISBN: 1843846403 | 2022 | 240 pages | PDF | 19 MB
The best-known wolves of Old English literature are the Beasts of Battle, alongside ravens and eagles as ravenous heralds of doom who haunt the battlefield in the hope of fresh meat plucked from still-warm bodies. Yet to reduce these animals to mere corpse-scavengers is to deny that they are frequently imbued with a variety of far more nuanced meanings elsewhere in the corpus.