Epic poem · c. 8th–11th century
Beowulf (Old English)
Old English text
The Geatish hero Beowulf crosses the sea to rid the Danish hall of Heorot of the monster Grendel, then Grendel's mother, and in old age faces a dragon guarding a cursed hoard, in the original Old English of the oldest surviving epic in English.
Contents · 26 parts
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