TY - BOOK ID - 77945752 TI - Beowulf PY - 2008 SN - 1775411486 9781775411482 9781775411482 PB - [Waiheke Island] Floating Press DB - UniCat KW - Poetry (Poetic Works By One Author) KW - Poetry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77945752 AB - Beowulf is the earliest surviving poem in Old English. Although the authorship is anonymous it is believed to have been written before the 10th century AD. The only extant European manuscript of the Beowulf text is placed at around 1010. The epic tells the tale of the Scandinavian hero Beowulf as he struggles against three adversaries; the monster Grendel, Grendel's mother and an unnamed dragon. The epic was recently released as a blockbuster film starring Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, Brendan Gleeson, John Malkovich, Crispin Glover, Alison Lohman, and Angelina Jolie. ER -