Beowulf: dragon slayer

Grendel Prowled In, Hating All Men And All Joy And Hungry For Human Life. So Swift Was His Attack That No Man Heard An Outcry; But When The Dawn Came, Thirty Of Hothgar's Best And Noblest Thanes Were Missing. Only Beowulf, Foremost Among Warriors, Has The Strength And Courage To Battle With Grendel The Night-stalker. In This Thrilling Re-telling Of The Anglo-saxon Legend, Rosemary Sutcliff Recounts Beowulf's Most Terrifying Quests: Against Grendel The Man-wolf, Against The Hideous Sea-hag And, Most Courageous Of All - His Fight To The Death With The Monstrous Fire-drake.