Verses And Translations

Verses and Translations

✍ Review by: J. D. Duff 📂 Article 📅 1926 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 230 KB

Beowulf: a verse translation

📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 W.W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

Beowulf is a major epic of Anglo-Saxon literature, probably composed between the first half of the seventh century and the end of the first millennium. The poem was inspired by Germanic and Anglo-Saxon oral tradition recounting the exploits of Beowulf, the hero who gave his name to the poem. Here, i

Beowulf: a verse translation

📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 153 KB 👁 3 views

Presents the classic poem in which a Norse hero saves Denmark's royal house from monsters, returns home to become his own people's greatest king, and then faces a murderous dragon to protect them. Presented in the original Old English with a verse translation on facing pages.

Beowulf: a verse translation

✍ Seamus Heaney 📂 Fiction 📅 2001 🏛 W. W. Norton & Company 🌐 English ⚖ 141 KB 👁 3 views

*New York Times* bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Award.Composed toward the end of the first millennium, *Beowulf* is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He

An Updated Verse Translation

✍ Rebsamen, Frederick (Translator); Beowulf 📂 Fiction 🏛 HarperCollins 🌐 English ⚖ 436 KB

A verse translation of the first great narrative poem in the English language that captures the feeling and tone of the original.

Beowulf A New Verse Translation

✍ Heaney, Seamus 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB