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Umfang: 1 online resource (288 pages) : , illustrations.

Ausgabe: Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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ISBN: 9780812204407

Serie: The Middle Ages Series

Inhalt: Rarely are these works translated by someone who is both a medieval scholar and a poet, and this combination makes for both fidelity to the complexity of the originals and compelling poetry in a modern idiom.

Anmerkung: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Foreword / , Note on Editions -- , Guide to Pronouncing Old English -- , On Translating Old English Poetry -- , Introduction -- , Beowulf -- , A Note on Genres -- , Heroic or Historical Poems -- , Elegies -- , Selected Exeter Book Riddles -- , Gnomic or Wisdom Poems -- , Religious Poems -- , Appendix A. "Digressions": Battles, Feuds, and Family Strife in Beowulf -- , Appendix B. Genealogies in Beowulf -- , Appendix C. Two Scandinavian Analogues of Beowulf -- , Appendix D. Possible Riddle Solutions -- , Glossary of Proper Names -- , Bibliography -- , Index -- , Acknowledgments. , In English.

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.9783/9780812204407

URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812204407

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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXI, 255 S.) : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-0-8122-0440-7

Originaltitel: Beowulf

Weitere Ausg.: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8122-4345-1

Sprache: Englisch

Schlagwort(e): Altenglisch ; Versdichtung ; Beowulf ; Anthologie ; Anthologie

DOI: 10.9783/9780812204407

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xxxi, 255 pages)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-283-89725-3 , 0-8122-0440-9

Serie: The Middle Ages Series

Originaltitel: Beowulf. English.

Inhalt: The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter.Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and heart-breaking "Wulf and Eadwacer," and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, and Williamson's introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom, to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years.

Anmerkung: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , On translating Old English poetry -- Beowulf -- The battle of Maldon -- Deor -- The wanderer -- The seafarer -- The wife's lament -- Wulf and Eadwacer -- Selected Exeter Book riddles -- Maxims II (Cotton maxims) -- Charms -- The fortunes of men -- Cædmon's hymn -- Physiologus: panther and whale -- Vainglory -- Two advent lyrics -- The dream of the rood -- Appendix A: digressions -- battles, feuds, and family strife in Beowulf -- Appendix B: Genealogies in Beowulf -- Appendix C: two Scandinavian analogues of Beowulf -- Appendix D: Possible riddle solutions. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-8122-2275-X

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-8122-4345-5

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.9783/9780812204407