Beowulf and the Beowulf manuscript

Beowulf and the Beowulf manuscript

by Kevin S. Kiernan
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The story of Beowulf and his hard-fought victory over the monster Grendel has captured the imagination of readers and listeners for a millennium.

The heroic Anglo-Saxon story survives to the world in one eleventh-century manuscript that was badly burne.

Format
328 pages, Paperback
First published
1996
Publishers
University of Michigan Press
Subjects
British library·Beowulf·Beowulf·Manuscripts·Nowell codex·Epic poetry·English ·Criticism·Textual·Manuscripts·Medieval·England·Editing·Manuscripts·English ·Editing·Paleography·English·Manuscript dating
Language
English

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