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Many editions of the Old English text of Beowulf have been published; this section lists the most influential. The Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin made the first transcriptions of the Beowulf-manuscript in 1786, working as part of a Danish government historical research commission. He had a copy made by a professional copyist who ...
When the book was first published, Theodore Watts wrote in The Athenaeum that the work was a success. [57] Andy Orchard, professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford, [ 59 ] noted that Morris's translation was very faithful to the original syntax and words, especially with the compounds he created like "shade-goer" and "horn-house". [ 60 ]
Beginning shortly before he became a barrister, and continuing until shortly before his death, Hall wrote seven books alongside several shorter works. [33] The first two, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary and Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburg: A Translation into Modern English Prose, quickly became authoritative works that went through four editions each.
Remounted page from Beowulf, British Library Cotton Vitellius A.XV, 133r First page of Beowulf, contained in the damaged Nowell Codex (132r). The Nowell Codex is the second of two manuscripts comprising the bound volume Cotton MS Vitellius A XV, one of the four major Old English poetic manuscripts.
Works based on Beowulf (2 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Beowulf" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... Kaluza's law; N. Nægling; Nowell ...
It is historical novel based closely on the poem. [7] 1961: As a children's story by Rosemary Sutcliff. [8] 1966: in The Green Man, a novel by Henry Treece, Beowulf is a minor character, who travels with his own bard, who is making the story about him. 1968: Beowulf: A New Telling, an adaptation for children by Robert Nye.
It represents Tolkien's attempt to reconstruct the folktale underlying the narrative of the first half of Beowulf. The book ends with two versions of Tolkien's "The Lay of Beowulf". The former, subtitled "Beowulf and Grendel", is a poem or song [5] of seven eight-line stanzas about Beowulf's victory over Grendel. The latter is a poem of fifteen ...
Grendel is a 1971 novel by the American author John Gardner. [1] It is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.