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Seamus Heaney's bestselling ?Beowulf? is now wedded to more than one hundred glorious images. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf ?is the elegiac narrative of the Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. Drawn to what he has called the 'foursquareness of the utterance' in ?Beowulf ?and its immense emotional credibility Seamus Heaney gives the great epic convincing realityBut how to visualize the poet's story has always been a challenge for modernday readers. In Beowulf: An Illustrated Edition, John D. Niles, a specialist in Old English literature, provides visual counterparts to Heaney's remarkable translation. More than one hundred fullpage illustrationsViking warships, chain mail, lyres, spearheads, even a reconstruction of the Great Hallmake visible Beowulf's world and the elemental themes of his story: death, divine power, horror, heroism, disgrace, devotion, and fame. This mysterious world is now transformed into one of material splendor as readers view its elegant goblets, dragon images, and finely crafted gold jewelry against the backdrop of the Danish landscape of its origins. 80 color and 41 blackandwhite illustrations
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