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Translated by Michael Alexander - Performed by David Rintoul - Unabridged Fiction - 2 CASSETTES - 3 hours

Publisher, Penguin Audiobooks (1997)

Received the coveted "AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD" (April/May 1999) for exceptional narrative voice and style, vocal characterizations, appropriateness for audio format and enhancement of the text!

Eighth-century in origin, composed to be recited aloud, it told its Anglo-Saxon listeners a story of their Scandanavian ancestors. It celebrates the hero Beowulf, who goes to Denmark and slays the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother. He later becomes king of Geatland, and in old age meets death in combat with a dragon. Blending history with legend and richly allusive in its narrative, Beowulf portrays an epic conflict of good and evil, generosity and vengeance, life and death.