Anglo-Saxon Paganism: Beowulf, Sutton Hoo, Wyrd, Symbel, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Franks Casket, Anglo-Saxon Runes, Blot, the Dragon, Finnesburg Fragment, List of Monarchs of East Anglia, Religion in Mercia, Rune Poems, Hretha, Wight, Scop

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: Beowulf, Sutton Hoo, Wyrd, Symbel, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Franks Casket, Anglo-Saxon runes, Blot, The Dragon, Finnesburg Fragment, List of monarchs of East Anglia, Religion in Mercia, Rune Poems, Hretha, Wight, Scop, Nine Herbs Charm, Godwulf, Spong Hill, Codex Sangallensis 878, Oslac, Lacnunga, Solomon and Saturn, Ealuscerwen, Beowa, Neorxnawang, AEcerbot, Thyle, M draniht, The Reckoning of Time, Magic in Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon deities, Wio faerstice, Canterbury Charm, For a Swarm of Bees, Cofgod, Anglo-Saxon Metrical Charms. Excerpt: Beowulf (; in Old English or, literally "bee wolf" i.e. "bee hunter," a kenning for "bear") 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 the building which housed a collection of medieval manuscripts that had been assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. It fell into obscurity for many decades, and its existence did not become widely known again until it was printed in 1815 in an edition prepared by the Icelandic scholar Grimur Jonsson Thorkelin. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who has been attacking the resident warriors of the mead hall of Hroogar (the king of the Danes), Grendel's mother, and an unnamed dragon. After the first two victories, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and becomes king of the Geats. The last fight takes place fifty years later. In this final battle, Beowulf is fatally wounded. After his death, his servants.