[Gutenberg 50742] • The Story of Beowulf, Translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English Prose

Excerpt from The Story of Beowulf: Translated From Anglo-Saxon Into, Modern English Prose

'Beowulf' may rightly be pronounced the great national epic of the Anglo-Saxon race. Not that it exalts the race so much as that it presents the spirit of the Anglo-Saxon peoples, the ideals and aims, the manners and customs, of our ancestors, and that it does so in setting before us a great national hero. Beowulf himself was not an Anglo-Saxon. He was a Geat-Dane; but he belonged to that confraternity of nations that composed the Teutonic people.

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