Our learning journey with our very good friend Beowulf is drawing to a close...As we now know, the story is ancient and began life as a poem.
The British Library has the only surviving written version of the poem and it can be seen here: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/englit/beowulf/ along with some more information about the story and particularly about this manuscript.
The whole of the poem, in its original language, can be found here:http://www8.georgetown.edu/departments/medieval/labyrinth/library/oe/texts/a4.1.html What do you think of it?
I am certainly glad we have some modern retellings of the story that we can use!
It was great to see you all so interested in this story, I was sad I could not stay longer to see it all with you, it looks so exciting.
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