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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.
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 ...
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
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.
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)
During the Battle of Copenhagen (1807) his house was burned and demolished due to fire, and the text (on which he had spent 20 years) was lost. The manuscripts survived, however, and Thorkelin began again. The poem was eventually published in 1815. [3] Thorkelin was the first scholar to make a full translation of the poem, into Latin.
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.
It is known for the difficulty in translating Beowulf. The Anglo-Saxon poems of Beowulf, the travellers song and the battle of Finnesburh (1833). [228] Edited [together with a glossary of the more difficult words and an historical preface] by English scholar and historian John Mitchell Kemble (1807–1857). [229] [230] Beowulf: an epic poem ...