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This is a list of translations of Beowulf, one of the best-known Old English heroic epic poems. Beowulf has been translated many times in verse and in prose. By 2020, the Beowulf's Afterlives Bibliographic Database listed some 688 translations and other versions of the poem, from Thorkelin's 1787 transcription of the text, and in at least 38 languages.
Translating Beowulf : modern versions in English verse. Cambridge Rochester, New York: D.S. Brewer. ISBN 978-1-84384-394-8. OCLC 883647402. Morgan, Edwin (1952). Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English. Aldington, Kent: Hand and Flower Press. Morris, William (1910). The tale of Beowulf sometime King of the folk of the Weder Geats ...
Read "The Shipman's Tale" with interlinear translation Archived 14 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine; Modern Translation of the Shipman's Tale and Other Resources at eChaucer "The Shipman's's Tale" – a plain-English retelling for non-scholars.
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary is a prose translation of the early medieval epic poem Beowulf from Old English to modern English. Translated by J. R. R. Tolkien from 1920 to 1926, it was edited by Tolkien's son Christopher and published posthumously in May 2014 by HarperCollins.
York Notes on Geoffrey Chaucer's "Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" (1999, with Mary Alexander) A History Of English Literature (2000, 2007, 2013) A History of Old English Literature (2002) Mediaevalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England (2007) Reading Shakespeare (2013) Poetry. Twelve Poems (1978) Editions. Beowulf: A Glossed Text (1995 ...
Over a thousand years ago, a writer (or writers) penned an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who must defeat an evil monster (the story is replete with power struggles, lots of killing and ...
Beowulf and the Finnesburg fragment: a translation into modern English prose (1940). [248] Translated with an introducation and notes by John R. Clark Hall. New edition revised by Charles Leslie Wrenn (1895–1969) and prefatory notes by J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973). The text translated is that of Fr. Klaeber. List of translations of Beowulf ...
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (also known as Heaneywulf [1]) is a verse translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into modern English by the Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. It was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and Faber and Faber, and won that year's Whitbread Book of the Year Award.