This is the 2007 Borders classics edition. Contains both verse and prose versions of the classic story.
This epic tale of heroism is considered the most important Old English poem. Though it's composition was completed in England in the eighth century, ,,Beowulf" is set in the heroic societes of fifth-century Scandinavia. Against a background of feuding and feasting, the hero Beowulf battles to the
Beowulf is the longest and finest literary work to have come down to us from Anglo-Saxon times, and one of the world&s greatest epic poems. Set in the half-legendary, half historical Scandinavian past, it tells the story of the hero Beowulf.
Najstarszy epos bohaterski w Europie to staroangielski Beowulf. Powstał o kilkaset lat przed chrztem Polski, przed urodzeniem się Bolesława Chrobrego: i co najmniej przez pół tysiąclecia nic mu nie dorównało. Czy znaczy to, że się zestarzał? Ani trochę! Pozostaje aktualny, pasjonujący i
