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Beowulf (Signet Classics) (Reprint Edition) by Burton Raffel (Translator), Robert P. Creed (Afterword), Burton Raffel Anonymous Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-451-52740-2 / 0451527402 ISBN-13: 978-0-451-52740-0 / 9780451527400 The epic poem of war and adventure.Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, ne |