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  2. List of translations of Beowulf - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Translating Beowulf - Wikipedia

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    Among the challenges to the translator of Beowulf are whether to attempt a verse or prose rendering; [3] how closely to stick to the original; [4] whether to make the language archaic or to use distinctly modern phraseology; [4] whether to domesticate or foreignize the text; [4] to what extent to imitate the original's laconic style and ...

  4. Beowulf - Wikipedia

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    In 1975, John Porter published the first complete verse translation of the poem entirely accompanied by facing-page Old English. [101] Seamus Heaney's 1999 translation of the poem (Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, called "Heaneywulf" by the Beowulf translator Howell Chickering and many others [102]) was both praised and

  5. Old English literature - Wikipedia

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    Old English literature has had some influence on modern literature, and notable poets have translated and incorporated Old English poetry. Well-known early translations include Alfred, Lord Tennyson's translation of The Battle of Brunanburh, William Morris's translation of Beowulf, and Ezra Pound's translation of The Seafarer.

  6. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Michael J. Alexander - Wikipedia

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    Poetry. Twelve Poems (1978) Editions. Beowulf: A Glossed Text (1995, revised 2000) Translations. The Earliest English Poems (1966, revised 1977, 1991) Beowulf: A Verse Translation (1973, revised 2001) Old English Riddles from the Exeter Book (1980, revised 2007)

  8. Nowell Codex - Wikipedia

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    In addition to this, it contains first a fragment of The Life of Saint Christopher, then the more complete texts Wonders of the East and Letter of Alexander to Aristotle, and, after Beowulf, a poetic translation of Judith. Due to the fame of Beowulf, the Nowell Codex is also sometimes known simply as the Beowulf manuscript.

  9. Old English - Wikipedia

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    The first example is taken from the opening lines of the folk epic Beowulf, a poem of some 3,000 lines. [2] This passage describes how Hrothgar's legendary ancestor Scyld was found as a baby, washed ashore, and adopted by a noble family. The translation is literal and represents the original poetic word order.