This is not a translation. This is not a monument to be measured.
This is Beowulf as it was spoken in breath and fire, alliteration and blood.
In Beowulf: Epic Reforged, J. Wayne Goulet returns the great Anglo-Saxon epic to its origins as an oral art. Forty cantos of hard-driving verse follow a warrior from his first hall-feast to his final stand against the dragon's fire - rendered in a voice built not for the scholar's desk, but for the listening ear.
Hear now the word of worthy deeds.