A widely celebrated translator\'s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures--a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel\'s monstrous mother, and a dragon--and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter.
If the definition of a superhero is "someone who uses his special powers to fight evil," then Beowulf is our first English.
A widely celebrated translator\'s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures--a huge, cannibalistic ogre named Grendel, Grendel\'s monstrous mother, and a dragon--and then dies, mortally wounded during his last encounter
