Beowulf

Beowulf is an anonymous Old English epic poem — its author is unknown. Scholars date its composition anywhere from the early 8th century to the early 11th century; the poem's sole surviving manuscript was copied around the year 1000. This edition on Seekquel is Seamus Heaney's acclaimed modern-English verse translation, first published in 1999, which won that year's Whitbread Book of the Year Award.

This is a translation. Seamus Heaney translated the original Old English epic into modern English verse; several editions print his translation alongside the Old English text (a "bilingual edition"). The poem itself predates Heaney's translation by roughly a thousand years.