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Beowulf Michael Swanton

Beowulf By Michael Swanton

Beowulf by Michael Swanton


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Summary

This edition contains explanatory notes, drawing on archaeological sources, which expand on the poet's more esoteric allusions and offer background information on manners and customs. A prose translation faces the text, which should be of use to both students and the general reader.

Beowulf Summary

Beowulf: Revised Edition by Michael Swanton

New, up-to-date bibliography which should give this edition another twenty years of life.. Excellent, scholarly introduction which focusses on the values and social relevance of the poem.. Explanatory notes drawing on archaeological sources.. Prose translation.

About Michael Swanton

Michael Swanton is Reader in English Medieval Studies at the University of Exeter

Table of Contents

A Note on the Text and Translation, Map, Select Bibliography, Beowulf Text, Notes, Peoples and Genealogies, Glossary of Proper Names.

Additional information

GOR002180663
9780719051463
0719051460
Beowulf: Revised Edition by Michael Swanton
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Manchester University Press
1997-05-08
224
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