Book is viii + 164 pages, portions unpaginated; b/w illus. The book is a compilation, to accompany the 2007 film release of Robert Zemeckis, dir., Beowulf, of both the original draft of the screenplay (1997) and the final draft (2005), together with concept art, two songs, and various notes of explanation.

The two "rude songs" (in Gaiman's characterization, p. 262), "We Are Beowulf's Army" and "Nail 'Em to the Wall," are presented as an appendix to the book, whose major content is the two screenplay drafts and the concept art. Only "We Are Beowulf's Army" was used, in part, in the film.

"We Are Beowulf's Army" begins, after the direction "to be sung like a rough and ready rugby song":

There were a dozen virgins,
All Friesians and Franks!
We took 'em for a boat-ride,
and all we got were wanks!

OOohh,
We are Beowulf's army,
we are mighty thanes,
we'll steal your cattle,
and take your girls
then we'll do it all over again! (263; italics and capitalization as in original)

And ends:

There was a girl from Iceland,
And she was mighty hot!
She'd take a whole damn iceberg,
To cool her burning twat!

Singing we are Beowulf's army,
we are mighty thanes,
we'll steal your cattle,
and take your girls,
then we'll do it all over again.. (263; italics, capitalization, and concluding punctuation as in original)

BAM.