by Michael Swanton · Manchester University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780719007323
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«Beowulf» is the Anglo-Saxon epic poem edited by Michael Swanton, published by Manchester University Press in paperback (212 pages, in English).
The poem, in just over three thousand lines, narrates Beowulf's fight against a monster and Beowulf's duel with a dragon, in a tale that mixes mythical elements, heroic legends and historical facts. This edition offers an introduction, notes and a prose translation alongside the original text.
Published in 1978 in the Manchester Medieval Classics series. The explanatory notes draw on archaeological sources to clarify allusions in the poem and customs of the period.
Recommended for students of medieval English literature and for the general reader who wants to approach the poem with the support of notes and translation.
