LP record; total duration 59:00. A semi-dramatized reading of excerpts from Crossley-Holland's 1968 full translation, divided into 8 segments. The sleeve copy includes an informational mini-essay by Mitchell and a note on the translation by Crossley-Holland. The several readers are not individually credited by role.
The tracks are as follows (titles as given on sleeve):
• Side 1, track 1: Introductory
• Side 1, track 2: Beowulf comes to Denmark and to Heorot
• Side 1, track 3: Beowulf kills Grendel
• Side 1, track 4: Grendel's mother comes to Heorot
• Side 2, track 1: Beowulf kills Grendel's mother
• Side 2, track 2: Beowulf returns to Geatland
• Side 2, track 3: Beowulf fights the Dragon
• Side 2, track 4: Beowulf's Funeral
Not in MO1, GR, or MO2.
BAM.