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Question: What is the Old English heroic poem!?
What is the Old English heroic poem, surviving in a single copy dated around the year 1000, featuring its eponymous 6th century warrior from Geatland in Sweden!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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BeowulfWww@QuestionHome@Com

Beowulf!. There is another book written around 1985 by John Gardner called "Grendel" where the P!.O!.V!. is Grendel's!. If you are reading Beowulf, you may want to try to get a Norton Critical edtion!. This particular edition has a prose translation with a wealth of critical commentaries that are quite helpfulWww@QuestionHome@Com

It is Beowulf!. Oh so cool!. And there is also another book written in this century (if memory serves me correctly) that gives Grendel's version of events!.Www@QuestionHome@Com