Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates the exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of southern Sweden. Combines myth, Christian and pagan elements, and history into a powerful narrative. Genealogies.

Rune, an orphaned young man raised among strangers, tries to save the kingdom from a dragon that is burning the countryside and, along the way, learns that he is a kinsman of Beowulf.

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The story of Beowulf's life, his battle with the monster Grendel, and his death after a fight with a dragon.

A New York Times Bestseller. Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface.

A Travelogue from a Feng Shui Perspective With the release of this insightful travel account, Joey Yap establishes a platform to share with reader the one-of-a-kind experience of his annual China Excursion Series. With a generous insight into the mysterious and captivating world of ancient China, where the practice of Feng Shui was as integral to daily life as the use of technology is today. A step back into time, from a Feng Shui perspective.