![]() In modern verse with an essay and picturesīeowulf in Modern English. Translated into alliterative verse with a critical introductionīeowulf. ![]() Translated into modern English rhyming verse The Song of Beowulf rendered into English proseīeowulf. Ĭlassic, continuously in print through 4 editions. Moncrieff had studied Old English at the University of Edinburgh in 1913. With an introduction from Lord Northcliffe. Widsith Beowulf Finnsburgh Waldere Dior, done into Common English after the Old Manner A Metrical Translation into Modern English Eliot, (Ed.)ĭecorated and designed by Frederick Lawrence.īeowulf. an insistently archaizing diction and a striking literalism to produce a defamiliarizing effect". medievalizes" in a distinctive style, with "breaking rhythms and irregular syntax. The tale of Beowulf sometime King of the folk of the Weder Geats "One of the most enduringly popular of all translations of the poem". The Fight at Finnsburh: a fragmentĪ literal approach, somewhat archaic smoother and more uniform than Kemble. ![]() "With facsimile of the unique manuscript in the British Museum". īeowulf: an old English poem, translated into modern rhymesīeowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem, & the Fight at Finnsburg chopped up into short lines" as if verse īeowulf: a Heroic Poem of the Eighth Century, with a translationĪn archaizing version, translating word-for-word. Parallel text, with "literal" translation "reading like prose. Walter Scott-like romance verse using rhyme and modern metre ( iambic tetrameters), no attempt to imitate alliterative verse in 1833 had no translation.īeowulf, an epic poem translated from the Anglo-Saxon into English verse Transcription (full of errors) and first translation (considered poor) įirst version in a modern language, "a free paraphrase in a rhyming ballad metre" įirst complete translation into modern English archaizing, and translating word-for-word. Ex bibliotheca Cottoniana Musaei britannici edidit versione lat. Listed here are the major versions discussed by scholars, along with the first versions in different languages.ĭe Danorum rebus gestis secul. There are hundreds of translations or near-translations of Beowulf, and more are added each year, so a complete list may well be unattainable. Versions of other kinds that take more "latitude" are listed at List of adaptations of Beowulf. The works listed below may fall into more than one of Dryden's categories, but works that are essentially direct translations are listed here. Metaphrase or turning an author word for word, and line by line, from one language into another paraphrase or translation with latitude, where the author is kept in view by the translator so as never to be lost, but his words are not so strictly followed as his sense, and that, too, is admitted to be amplified but not altered and imitation where the translator – if he has not lost that name – assumes the liberty not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both as he sees occasion and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the ground-work, as he pleases. ![]() In the Preface to Ovid's Epistles (1680) Dryden proposed three different types of translation: The poet John Dryden's categories of translation have influenced how scholars discuss variation between translations and adaptations. By 2020, the Beowulf's Afterlives Bibliographic Database listed some 688 translations and other versions of the poem, from Thorkelin's 1787 transcription of the text, and in at least 38 languages. Beowulf has been translated many times in verse and in prose. This is a list of translations of Beowulf, one of the best-known Old English heroic epic poems. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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