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Title: Beowulf
Words: 227
Beowulf, an Anglo-Saxon epic poem, the most important work of Old English literature (see English Language: Old English Period). The earliest surviving manuscript is in the British Library; it is written in the West Saxon dialect and is believed to date from the late 10th century. On the basis of this text, Beowulf is generally considered to be the work of an anonymous 8th-century Anglian poet who fused Scandinavian history and pagan mythology with Christian elements.
The poem consists of 3182 lines, each line with four accents marked by alliteration and divided into two parts by a caesura (see Versification). The structure of the typical Beowulf line comes through in modern translation, for example:
Then came from the moor under misted cliffs
Grendel marching ...
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