Beowulf: In Blank Verse by Richard Hamer Degna Stone ' New Yorker

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Beowulf: In Blank Verse by Richard Hamer Degna Stone ' New YorkerThe Anglo Saxon epic Beowulf tells the story of the hero's slaying of three fabulous monsters, set against the historical background of sixth century Scandinavian wars and dynasties. Its alliterative and metrical rules are complex, and many previous translators have attempted to replicate them. Here, blank verse has been used, as being more suitable for the less inflected and freer syntax of modern English, and therefore offering a more familiar and