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A short summary of Anonymous's Beowulf. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Beowulf.
Hace 5 días · Beowulf, heroic poem, the highest achievement of Old English literature and the earliest European vernacular epic. It deals with events of the early 6th century and is believed by some to have been composed in the 8th century.
Sinopsis – Resumen de Beowulf. El poema comienza con una cronología de los reyes daneses, comenzando con Shild (cuyo funeral se describe en el Prólogo) y concluyendo con el reinado del actual rey Hrothgar, bisnieto de Shild. Hrothgar es querido por su gente y un guerrero eficaz.
Beowulf (/ ˈ b eɪ ə w ʊ l f /; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature.
It tells the story of the Scandinavian hero Beowulf, who gains fame as a young man by vanquishing the monster Grendel and Grendel’s mother; later, as an aging king, he kills a dragon but dies soon after, honoured and lamented.
Beowulf es un poema heroico, considerado el más alto logro de la literatura inglesa antigua y la primera epopeya vernácula europea. Trata de acontecimientos de principios del siglo VI de nuestra era y se cree que fue compuesto entre los años 700 y 750.
At Heardred's death, Beowulf takes the throne of the Geats, and rules in great prosperity and fame for fifty years. In Beowulf's old age, a thief finds a passageway into an old barrow. Inside, a dragon guards a treasure trove left there long ago by the last survivor of an extinct people.
