ix + 259 pp., with an Author's Note and a map. No ISBN appears on the book. The novel as a whole has little to do with Beowulf, but within its fiction a bard is said to tell, and the main character to contemplate, the Beowulf story. Two passages are taken directly from Serraillier, Beowulf the Warrior (1954), where they are presented as part of a performance of the tale of "Beowulf and the Fire Dragon." The first is patched together from an 11-line section on pp. 38-39 of Serraillier:

Then for the last time Beowulf spoke to his warriors,
Greeting them man by man. "Dearest comrades,
I am ready now—let the dragon face me if he dare!
You, my warriors, stand patient on the headlands and watch—this fight is none of yours." (207; italics and lineation as in original)

The second is taken from a 4-line section on p. 39 of Serraillier:

"My courage surely shall kill and win the treasure, unless fate—
Whose word is final, to whom in obedience unquestioned
Even kings must bow—shall deal me death." (207, italics and lineation as in original)

The debt is acknowledged on the copyright page.

Not in MO2.

BAM.