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1) Beowulf
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
BEOWULF HC SANTIAGO GARCIA and DAVID RUBIN unite to bring forward the myth of Beowulf, which has endured for a thousand years and inspired an epic poem of the same name, became a foundational piece of English literature, and inspired generations of authors, from Tolkien to a good number of Hollywood screenwriters. BEOWULF tells of the tale of a Scandinavian hero in lands that would become what is now Denmark and Sweden: A monster, Grendel, has arrived...
Author
Publisher
MCD x FSG Originals
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A new, feminist translation of Beowulf by the author of the much-buzzed-about novel The Mere Wife"--
Headley provides a radical new verse translation of the epic poem. She brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English, recontextualizing the binary narrative of monsters and heroes into a tale in which the two categories often entwine, justice is rarely served, and dragons live among us. The familiar elements of the...
3) Grendel
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story.
10) The 13th warrior
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
After being warned by a fortune-teller that their fight against legendary creatures is doomed to failure unless they have a 13th warrior, a travelling ambassador (Banderas) is given no choice but to join a group of fierce fighters
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In...
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Presents the prose translation of the Old English epic that Tolkien created as a young man, along with selections from lectures on the poem he gave later in life and a story and poetry he wrote in the style of folklore on the poem's themes.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
It is 922 A.D. The refined Arab courtier Ibn Fadlan is accompanying a party of Viking warriors back to the north. Fadlan belatedly discovers that his job is to combat the terrors in the night that come to slaughter the Vikings--but just how he will do it, Fadlan has no idea
17) Beowulf
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Includes information about the author of "Beowulf," thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas
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