Title page from The Tale of Beowulf, sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats

The Tale of Beowulf, sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats

An English translation of the tale. Beowulf is one of the first literary masterpieces of the English language, written in Old English in the eleventh century. The story itself is thought to have been originally composed sometime between 700 and 750.

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