Heroic poem · c. 10th century
Judith
Translated by Cosette Faust Newton & Stith Thompson (1918)
A retelling, in the Nowell Codex alongside Beowulf, of the apocryphal Book of Judith: the widow Judith beheads the drunken Assyrian general Holofernes and delivers her people, recast in the heroic idiom of Old English verse.
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