Title Page : * "The Story of Beowulf", by Strafford Riggs [1933], THE STORY OF BEOWULF RETOLD FROM THE ANCIENT EPIC BY STRAFFORD RIGGS DECORATED BY HENRY PITZ D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY Incorporated NEW YORK [1933] Scanned and proofed by Eliza Yetter, 2006. HTML formatting , by John Bruno Hare. This text is...
Part I : * "The Story of Beowulf", by Strafford Riggs [1933], I WHICH TELLS something of the youth and early manhood of Beowulf, how he heard of the monster GRENDEL, and of Daneland. ONCE upon a time, in the far north of what is now called Europe, there was a kingdom known as Geatsland, and its ruler w...
Part Iii : * "The Story of Beowulf", by Strafford Riggs [1933], III WHICH TELLS of how a DRAGON appeared in Geatsland, and how Beowuif and Wiglaf destroyed it, and how sleep came to Beowulf. MANY years passed, during which we know very little of what befell our hero Beowulf. He returned safely to Geatsl...
Untitled : This is a long out-of-print retelling of the Beowulf saga. A prose translation, it captures the mood of the original without being self-consciously archaic. The black and white illustrations are stylized and sometimes a bit cartoonish, and nicely dimensionalize the story. Thanks to Eliz...
Foreword : * "The Story of Beowulf", by Strafford Riggs [1933], FOREWORD JUST as Conrad's character Singleton, in The Nigger of the Narcissus, sat in the fo'c'sle reading, so, on board the Gulf of Akaba, off Cape Verde, I saw Old Man Seastream with a tattered copy of Beowulf, which, by some strange chance...
Part Ii : * "The Story of Beowulf", by Strafford Riggs [1933], II WHIGH TELLS of Beowulf's reception among the Danes, his encounter with GRENDEL and with GRENDEL'S MOTHER. ON AND ON, through the vast, dense forests of Daneland, Beowulf and his companions toiled, until the sweat stood out in drops upon their...