Beowulf Connolly An excellent companion piece to

An excellent companion piece to C

publishing more than two dozen books and thousands of essays in her sixty-five-year writing career

He sees that his time of battle has arrived

and that of reason

” (Joel 2:12–13)

Beowulf Connolly An excellent companion piece toTranslated by Ben J. Reinhard Dating from the age of Bede the Venerable, Beowulf is the quintessential Anglo Saxon poem, the heroic elegaic of man versus monsters. The hero, Beowulf, defends the Danes against the rampaging Grendel and his monstrous mother, and returns home, where he lives long and prosperously. At lifes end, however, he must confront the final foe, death, in battle with a dragon, deadly and ancient. Hark! We have heard of the Spear