Posts Tagged ‘literature’
Now this lens had a slow start. My topics have a small audience, I understand that.
It’s always been the way. A little bit of history or of literature is no match for someone telling you they made thousands online and how you can do the same. But it’s of no matter – this is what I know best. (If I knew how to make thousands online I would be keeping that to myself).
Beowulf, written in Old English sometime before the tenth century of the common era, tells the adventures of a great Scandinavian warrior of the sixth century.
A rich fabric of fact and fancy, this is the oldest surviving epic in British literature.
Beowulf exists in only one manuscript. This copy survived both the wholesale destruction of religious artifacts during the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII and a disastrous fire which destroyed the library of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631).
