For 10 points, name this Old English poem about a hero who defeats the monster Grendel.
The best-known critical work concerning this book begins with the allegory of the tower and attacks W. P. Ker's statement that this book's hero has "nothing else to do." That critical work, J. R. R. Tolkien's The Monsters and the Critics, contends that Fafnir and this work's third antagonist are the only prominent dragons in Northern European epic poetry. Tolkien also accepts that this epic was written "during the age of Bede," and that it is not an actual depiction of "historic Denmark or Sweden about A.D. 500." For 10 points, name this Old English poem about a hero who defeats the monster Grendel.
The best-known critical work concerning this book begins with the allegory of the tower and attacks W. P. Ker's statement that this book's hero has "nothing else to do.
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