Exhaustively researched, authoritatively overviewed, and intellectually rewarding, this book is the end result of my extensive researches carried out on and into the lone survivor of a genre of Old English long epics, Beowulf-a painstakingly laborious, yet pleasurable task through the journey of which I discovered, unearthed, gleaned, and absorbed a great wealth of previously-unknown-to-me information about Old English Literature in general and Beowulf in particular.