The Old English epic poem Beowulf has an established reputation as a canonical text. And yet the original poem has remained inaccessible to all but experienced scholars of Old English. This book aims to present the poem to readers who want to know what makes it such a remarkable work of art...
Konstantine Geerts has also recorded a short paragraph of the Lords Prayer from Beowulf in Old English, the original language Beowulf was written in. 本书配套练习包括:问答题,填字游戏,古英语练习,过去分词练习,单词表,公元1000年的欧洲地图和大事年表。扫二维码可免费收听作者James Caffrey为本书朗读的...
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem (comprising 3,182 alliterative lines) written in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend. It is an ancient work, likely over a thousand years old. Scholars can’t agree on the exact date, placing it anywhere between 975 and 1025. The poet is also unkno...
Codex. It has no title in the original manuscript, but has become known by the name of the story's protagonist.In 1731, the manuscript was damaged by a fire that swept through Ashburnham House in London that had a collection of medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton; ...
豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 内容简介· ··· Beowulf, the major surviving poem in Old English, is composed in a language that is rich but often difficult. This fully annotated edition makes the poem more accessible in its original language, while at the same time providing the materials...
Beowulf is the oldest and only completely preserved Old Germanic epic. The new selected edition is a complete revision of the relevant edition by Martin Lehnert. It offers an extensive introduction to the work, its subject matter and language, the original text (in extracts) with a new ...
United Kingdom original literature, like the original literature of other countries, is not in writing, but orally. Oral tradition of stories and legends, and tell continued processing, extension, final manuscripts. Famous representative figure: Anglo-Saxon times in the works of old English literatu...
Beowulf: Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Robin Wright, Anthony Hopkins, Paul Baker, John Bilezikjian. The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel, who is terrorizing Denmark, then Grendel's Mother, who begins killing out of revenge.
Beowulf is considered to be the longest and greatest poem extant in Old English. It has recently been made famous by the Beowulf movie, Beowulf game, Beowulf 3d, and the Beowulf trailer. Totalling 3,182 lines, Beowulf was written sometime between 720 - 796 a.d. It has been preserved in...
Accurate and literally faithful, the Donaldson translation conveys the full meaning and spirit of the original."Backgrounds and Contexts" provides readers with the historical, linguistic, and literary settings of Beowulf, including Robert C. Hughes on the origins of the Old English language, E. ...