Beowulf
Beowulf is one of the earliest existent poems in a modern European language, composed in England before the Norman Conquest. It is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. As a soc...
Beowulf is one of the earliest existent poems in a modern European language, composed in England before the Norman Conquest. It is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. As a soc...
