In his youth, he personifies all of the best values of the heroic culture. Beowulf the protagonist of the epic, beowulf is a geatish hero who fights the monster grendel, grendels mother, and a firebreathing dragon. A book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Translation by michael alexander, first published on 1973 is very skillfully put together and admirable. The piece reveals many of the aspects of beowulf which tolkien found most inspiring, most prominently the role of monsters in literature. The story tells of the norse hero, beowulf, set in a once upon a time mythic age. Epic poem, 3,000 lines long, written in england between ad 700 and in old english anglosaxon. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
Beowulfs boasts and encounters reveal him to be the strongest, ablest warrior around. Score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The story of heroic beowulf and his battles with the monster grendel and also with grendels mother not to mention the dragon is rather awesome. Beowulf must tread lightly when addressing hrothgar, but must impress the king in order to be accepted into his service to fight grendel what is an epic.