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Contains three stories from the age of chivalry, knights and holy quests.

Presents a cross-section of speculation, both scholarly and esoteric, some supported by cross references, while others contain astonishing tales of the Arthurian world.

A prose translation of the Christian-pagan, classic Old English poem "Beowulf," 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; also includes brief genealogies of the work's Danish, Geat, and Swedish royal families.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas ? Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.

Presents translations of three medieval English poems, including the Arthurian Romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"; "Pearl, " an elegy on the death of a young child; and "Sir Orfeo, " the story of a king who goes into exile after his wife is stolen by magic.

Presents the epic poem in contemporary English verse.

The epic of a dragon-slaying hero.