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Michael Swanton

    Beowulf
    An Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
    • 1997

      Beowulf

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      This edition contains explanatory notes, drawing on archaeological sources, which expand on the poet's more esoteric allusions and offer background information on manners and customs. A prose translation faces the text, which should be of use to both students and the general reader.

      Beowulf
    • 1990

      An Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

      • 36 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Michael Swanton's translation of this work - the first continuous national history of any Western people in their own language - draws extensively on the latest evidence of paleographers, archaeologists and textual and social historians to place these annals in the context of current knowledge.

      An Anglo-Saxon Chronicle