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'''Beowulf''' is an [[Old English]] [[epic]] poem that follows the life of the eponymous protagonist in his efforts to find and defeat the monster Grendel. The poem, by an unknown author, runs to over 3,000 lines long. Scholars believe it was composed some time between the eighth and eleventh century AD. Over one million | '''Beowulf''' is an [[Old English]] [[epic]] poem that follows the life of the eponymous protagonist in his efforts to find and defeat the monster Grendel. The poem, by an unknown author, runs to over 3,000 lines long. Scholars believe it was composed some time between the eighth and eleventh century AD. Over one million copies of different translations to modern languages have been printed. | ||
Nobel laureate [[Seamus Heaney]]'s 2001 translation won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.<ref>Heaney, Seamus. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. 2001, Norton. ISBN 0393320979</ref> | Nobel laureate [[Seamus Heaney]]'s 2001 translation won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.<ref>Heaney, Seamus. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. 2001, Norton. ISBN 0393320979</ref> | ||
The epic has transposed to film numerous times, the most recent being an eponymous 2007 film, directed by [[Robert Zemeckis]] from a screenplay by [[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Roger Avary]]. | The epic has transposed to film numerous times, the most recent being an eponymous 2007 film, directed by [[Robert Zemeckis]] from a screenplay by [[Neil Gaiman]] and [[Roger Avary]]. | ||
Revision as of 17:31, 3 June 2008
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem that follows the life of the eponymous protagonist in his efforts to find and defeat the monster Grendel. The poem, by an unknown author, runs to over 3,000 lines long. Scholars believe it was composed some time between the eighth and eleventh century AD. Over one million copies of different translations to modern languages have been printed.
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's 2001 translation won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.[1]
The epic has transposed to film numerous times, the most recent being an eponymous 2007 film, directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary.
- ↑ Heaney, Seamus. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation. 2001, Norton. ISBN 0393320979