He has also written The Saxon Stories, a series of 13 novels about the making of England. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe. He dies and is ritually burned on a great funeral pyre.Bernard Cornwell OBE (born 23 February 1944) is an English-American author of historical novels and a history of the Waterloo Campaign. The dragon is killed but Beowulf has received a mortal wound.
In the original poem Beowulf returns to Geatland and, fifty years later as king, must fight a dragon. No ordinary mortal could lift the sword.but Beowulf can and he strikes at Grendel's mother. Beowulf's sword has no power against the monster but then he spots an enormous sword in a corner of the cave. She enters Heorot, seizes Hrothgar's oldest friend and makes away with the severed arm of Grendel.īeowulf tracks Grendel's mother to her underwater cave and fights her. The Danes and Geats celebrate their victory not knowing that Grendel’s mother is also about to terrorise Heorot, seeking vengeance for the death of her son. Eventually Grendel’s arm is severed and the monster limps away to die. When Grendel breaks in Beowulf seizes the monster by the arm and will not let it go. Gredel terrorises the Danes for twelve long years.īeowulf, a prince of Geatland, hears of the Danes’ suffering and gains permission from his king to sail to their assistance.īeowulf and his men spend the night in Heorot waiting for the inevitable attack. Hrothgar - King of the Danes - builds a mead hall called Heorot but comes under attack from a monster called Grendel. The events of the poem are set in Scandanavia. The BBC is not responsible for the content. The poem consists of 3,182 lines and exists in a single copy, housed in the British Museum. Beowulf is one of the most important texts in Old English and is believed to date from somewhere between 9 - around the time of Alfred the Great.
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