Beowulf

Headley, Maria Dahvana

NEW edition

Nearly twenty years since the last major translation of Beowulf, here is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem, which brings to light elements that have never before been rendered into modern English. Maria Dahvana Headley's version transforms the story we know of monsters versus heroes into a tale in which those two categories entwine, in which justice is rarely served, and in which dragons live among us.