Beowulf / Heaney, Seamus

Presents the classic poem in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters, returns home to become his own people's greatest king, and then faces a murderous dragon to protect them. Presented in the original Old English with a verse translation on facing pages.

Twentieth-century Irish poet Seamus Heaney's verse translation of the Christian-pagan, classic Old English poem "Beowulf, " in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters; provides the Old English version on facing pages and includes brief genealogies of the work's Danish, Geat, and Swedish royal families, and an introduction by Heaney.

Contemporary translation of the anonymous classic with the Old English version on the opposing pages.