Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath.
- ISBN10 1454958960
- ISBN13 9781454958963
- Publish Date 19 June 2025
- Publish Status Forthcoming
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Union Square & Co.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English