Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Beowulf, Battle of Brunanburh, Caedmon's Hymn, Dream of the Rood, The Dragon, The Battle of Maldon, Christ II, Finnesburg Fragment, Elene, Maxims, Christ and Satan, Wulf and Eadwacer, The Seafarer, List of Beowulf characters, Judith, The Husband's Message, The Ruin, The Wife's Lament, Tribes of Widsith, Daniel, Juliana, The Rime of King William, The Phoenix, Andreas, Metres of Boethius, Soul and Body, Deor, Guthlac poems A and B, Waldere, Exodus, Rune Poems, The Wanderer, Thula, Nine Herbs Charm, Solomon and Saturn, The Fortunes of Men, AEcerbot, Christ III, Seasons for Fasting, The Rhyming Poem, Vainglory, The Fates of the Apostles, Wio faerstice, For a Swarm of Bees, Crist, 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 Swed