Name: Beowulf (en Inglés)
Price: 24.44 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Gummere, Barton ; Anonymous
ISBN: 9781494782290

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Anonymous

Traducido por

Barton Gummere

Editorial

Createspace

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

140

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm

Peso

0.21 kg.

ISBN13

9781494782290

Categorías

Épico
Poesía clásica y anterior al siglo xx
Historia

Beowulf (en Inglés)

Anonymous (Autor) · Barton Gummere (Traducido por) · Createspace · Tapa Blanda

Libro Nuevo Importado

Envío: 20 a 27 días háb.

$ 37.60$ 24.44

-35%

Costos de importación incluídos en el precio ✅

Libro Nuevo

Quedan 100 unidades

$ 24.44

Llega entre el 11 Ago y el 24 Ago a Quito, Pichincha. Seleccionar ubicación

Agregar a lista de deseos

Reseña del libro "Beowulf (en Inglés)"

Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. The poem's existence for its first seven centuries or so made no impression on writers and scholars, and besides a brief mention in a 1705 catalogue by Humfrey Wanley it was not studied until the end of the eighteenth century, and not published in its entirety until the 1815 edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (in Heorot) has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants bury him in a tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland.