Raffel, Burton

Presents a modern translation of the great epic poem.

Presents Burton Raffel's translation of the fourteenth-century English poem in which a mysterious green-skinned knight interrupts Christmas at Camelot and presents a dangerous challenge, to which Sir Gawain steps up.

A discussion of the origins, composition, and social and historical background of Beowulf prefaces the text of the early English epic poem.

A collection of thirty-three stories ranging from the early nineteenth century to the outbreak of World War II.

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.