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Horothgar, King of the Danes, invites warriors from neighboring kingdoms to his great mead hall with the hope that one of them will solve his problem. A monster named Grendel has been terrorizing the land and killing his people. One of the warriors who answers this call is our epic hero, Beowulf.
The Beowulf Manuscript, also known as the Nowell Codex, dates back to the late 10th century or early 11th century and is the only copy in existence. In 1731, the manuscript was damaged from the Cotton Library fire, making several lines in the poem unreadable. Today, with the help of modern technology, advanced techniques are being used not only to preserve the document from further degradation but also to reveal missing letters. All this is done to ensure that this epic story will continue to live on for many more generations.
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ColophonBeowulf
is thought to have been written between 975 and 1010.
It was translated from Anglo-Saxon in 1908 by
John Lesslie Hall.
This ebook was produced for
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Emma Sweeney,
and is based on a transcription produced in 2005 by
David Starner, Dainis Millers, and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
for
Project Gutenberg
and on digital scans available at
Google Books.
The cover page is adapted from
Scene from the Era of Norwegian Sagas,
a painting completed in 1850 by
Knud Baade.
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League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy
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The first edition of this ebook was released on
December 1, 2019, 10:30 p.m.
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