Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, newly world of heroes and ...
J Frederick,M Swan - 《Years Work in English Studies》 被引量: 3发表: 1999年 The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature List of contributors; Preface; Note on the text; 1. Anglo-Saxon society and its literature Patrick Wormald; 2. The Old English language Helmut Gneuss; 3. T......
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Both these passages illustrate two points: one, that the ‘meaning’ of the poet cannot be arrived at by a mere bald literal translation, or by warming it up with modern diction, without appreciating the idiom; and two, that we constantly need to know more than we do when the text is ...
"Craig Williamson'sBeowulfis superior, both in truth to the original and in readability, to any other version of the poem now available. Surprisingly many modern poets have tried to recreate the old alliterative poetry in modern English, Auden being only the most prominent of them, and while ...
First of all 3D is not a gimmick - without it this type of movie goes straight to XBox without a cinematic release. While Beowulf is just another Lord of the Rings wannabe, neither true to the source material nor actually a film - this is what the next few years hold. ...
Modern readers can get an inside look at the values of Germanic peoples by reading Beowulf. Germanic peoples settled in central, western, and northern Europe, and they are the ancestors of the modern English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Scandinavian nations. In ancient and medieval...
In the text we come across such narrative that portrays his bravery: "Beowulf", lines 2456-2461 "When he comes to meI mean to stand, not run from his shootingFlames, stand till fate decidesWhich of us wins. My heart is firm,My hands calm: I need no hotWords." Here Beowulf says ...
Beowulf is by far the most popular text of the medieval world taught in American classrooms, at both the high school and undergraduate levels. More students than ever before wrestle with Grendel in the darkness of Heorot or venture into the dragon’s barrow for gold and glory. This increase ...
In this article, I compare the modern translations of lines (675-702) of Beowulf in Seamus Heaney's 2000 translation, Roy Luizza's 1999 translation, and Edwin Morgan's 1952 translation . I begin with Morgan's text since it is the earliest translation and ends with Heaney's translation, ...