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Bilingual Beowulf Unknown Octo LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum, of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld the Sce ng from squadroned foes, Oft Scyld Sce ng sceaþena. Beowulf: a dual-language edition by Chickering, Howell D. Publication date Topics Edition Bilingual ed. External-identifier urn:oclc:record Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier beowulf00howe Identifier-ark ark://t3tt5rk7b Isbn User Interaction Count:  · Language: English: Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (Feb. 14th, ) Edition: Unknown: ISBN Dimensions: x x inches: ISBN Shipping Weight: lbs: Language: English: Edition: Unknown: Dimensions: x x inches: Shipping Weight: lbs: Categories: Classics Fiction: Find at your local libraryPrice Range: $ - $

Leading "Beowulf" scholar Howell D. Chickering, Jr.'s, fresh and lively translation, featuring the Old English on facing pages, allows the reader to encounter "Beowulf" as poetry. This edition incorporates recent scholarship and provides historical and literary context for the modern reader. New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.. Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition. Beowulf.: The first major poem in English literature, Beowulf tells the story of the life and death of the legendary hero Beowulf in his three great battles with supernatural monsters. The ideal Anglo-Saxon warrior-aristocrat, Beowulf is an example of the heroic spirit at its finest.

Unfortunately the kindle edition of this translation has been ruined by bad formatting. For readers who are reading Beowulf for the very first time, every 10 lines the editors have inserted a brief summary of the next ten lines, serving as a spoiler every 10 lines. Bilingual Beowulf Unknown Octo LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum, of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld the Sce ng from squadroned foes, Oft Scyld Sce ng sceaþena. www.doorway.ru A stunning experimental translation of the Old English poem "Beowulf," over 30 decades old and woefully neglected, by the contemporary poet Thomas Meyer, who studied with Robert Kelly at Bard, and emerged from the niche of poets who had been impacted by the brief moment of cross-pollination between U.K. and U.S. experimental poetry in the late.