Beowulf Free Audiobook - Original manuscript - part 1 of 3
Channel: Free Audiobooks
Date: 2016-10-30

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative lines. It may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old English and is commonly cited as one of the most important works of Old English literature. A date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the only certain dating pertains to the manuscript, which was produced between 975 and 1025. The author was an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, referred to by scholars as the "Beowulf poet".

The full poem survives in the manuscript known as the Nowell Codex, located in the British Library. It has no title in the original manuscript, but has become known by the name of the story's protagonist. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through Ashburnham House in London that had a collection of medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

Read by:
Kara Shallenberg -  Chapters 01/02
Karen Savage -  Chapter 03
Jim Mowatt - Chapter 04
Peter Yearsley - Chapter 05
Cynthia Lyons - Chapter 06
Denny Sayers - Chapter 07
Kirsten Ferreri - Chapter 08

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