Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon epic poem

Document History The poem has survived thanks to the single copy of a copy of the tenth century: his oldest owner is identified Lawrence Nowell, a scholar of the sixteenth century [ref. needed]. The manuscript will then appear in the seventeenth century in the catalog of the possessions of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; Unfortunately, the copy is irreparably damaged during a fire in his library in 1731. The Icelandic researcher Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin performs the first transcription of the manu...