#beowulf and the lady of the lake are it on my shelves

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Grace (age 15) just finished reading The Lady of the Lake (Sir Walter Scott), and after a bit of a rough start (“Mom, is this even going anywhere?”) ended up really liking it. I loaned her my copy of Ivanhoe to read next, but I’m wondering what other epic poetry anyone might recommend for her. She read Beowulf not too long ago (Seamus Heaney translation) and had to skim some of the more descriptively gory parts but overall enjoyed that as well. She loves Jane Austen, tolerated Jane Eyre, and enjoyed Elizabeth Gaskell aside from the deaths. She also loves Lord of the Rings and Redwall.