The epic poem BEOWULF has enthralled readers for years and years with its tale of adventure, heroism, and glory in combat. The court of Hrothgar, good king from the Danes, offers fallen under attack from the vile large Grendel. Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, includes his band of dauntless warriors to assist the king and prove his might in fight and skill as a leader before ascending the throne of his very own land.

Believed by scholars to have been made up sometime between A.D. 700 and 1000 by an unidentified author, BEOWULF stands today as the great literary masterpiece of the Anglo-Saxon language, also known as Old English. The epic can be presented within the popular Contemporary English verse translation by Francis Barton Gummere.