Magennis offers a serious account of translations in English verse, setting them in the frameworks both of the larger story of the retrieval and treatment of the poem and of insights into it over the past two hundred years. He also makes us aware of key issues in translation theory. ...
The ancient epic adventure in the acclaimed Frederick Rebsamen modern English translation…Perhaps the oldest surviving poem in Old English, the epic legend of Beowulf follows the brave and noble hero with superhuman strength on his quest to rescue the King of Danes from the vicious monster, ...
Anglo-Saxon epic poem. In this excerpt, the hero Beowulf has been summoned by King Hrothgar to kill the monster Grendel, which has been savagely murdering his men. Originally written in Old English, the poem's short, alliterative phrases are still apparent in this modern English translation....
The most famous modern English translation of Beowulf was done by Irish poet Seamus Heaney. The original manuscript of Beowulf, contained in the Nowell Codex, is preserved at the British Library. Beowulf is a fascinating text to study to learn about Anglo-Saxon culture and values, as well ...
Beowulf : text and translation The greatest and most attractive of the Old English poems is Beowulf. It tells how Beowulf clears King Hrothgar's land of the fearsome monster Grendel, then seeks out and overcomes a second monster in a classic combat at the bottom of a ... J Porter - Angl...
Seamus Heaney’s deeply felt interpretation, widely acknowledged as the greatest Beowulf translation of modern times, is presented in parallel with the Old English verse in this fabulous Folio edition. Featuring extraordinary illustrations by Clive Hicks
Further Reading There are many Modern English translations ofBeowulf, but one of the best isSeamus Heaney’s 1999 translation, which is the one I quoted from. A more literal (and free) translation can be found here on “Beowulf in Cyberspace.”...
"The translation ofBeowulfis a notoriously difficult task, and Williamson is to be commended for producing a fluent and lively text that recalls the language of the original to the beginning student of Old English literature."—Comitatus
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I like this translation a lot. virtually, the modern day English version seems to flow the same way the old English version does. However... the stroyline is too simple, compare to modern myth such lord of the rings or greek myth such as Iliad and Odyssey. (展开) 5回应 如果...