A Companion to Beowulf is a guide to the ancient epic poem for students and general readers. The reader learns about the famous manuscript and its language, the

This is a complete guide to the text and context of the most famous Old English poem. In this book, the specific roles of selcted individual characters, both ma

Perhaps the most important work written in Old English, Beowulf grew out of a culture very different from ours, and yet its story of war, violence, and heroism

This updated edition has been thoroughly revised to take account of recent scholarship and includes five new chapters.

Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and hist