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Beowulf: The Complete Story of the Hero Who Slew Grendel | Anglo-Saxon Legend for Sleep
Beowulf: The Complete Story of the Hero Who Slew Grendel | Anglo-Saxon Legend for Sleep
A slow, quiet retelling of Beowulf, from the hall to the barrow, made for falling asleep to.
It's the oldest long poem in English, and it survives in exactly one manuscript, which was damaged by fire in the seventeen hundreds and very nearly didn't survive that either. Everything anyone knows about it comes down to that one battered book.
The story is three fights, spread across a lifetime. A hall in Denmark where the noise of people enjoying themselves has been drawing something out of the marshes at…
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