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Major worksBeowulf
The great Old English epic, the oldest surviving long poem in the language, telling of the hero Beowulf and his battles against the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a final dragon. Composed in an age when pagan heroism met Christian faith, it preserves the values, sorrows, and music of the early medieval North in verse of haunting power.
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