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Beowulf / edited by Sarah M. Anderson ; translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy.
- Title
- Beowulf / edited by Sarah M. Anderson ; translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy.
- Publication
- New York : Longman, c2004.
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- Description
- xxxvii, 234 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "A new translation of Beowulf, by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, is enhanced by Sarah Anderson with commentary and notes that explain unfamiliar terms, assist with literary allusions, and clarify a wealth of cultural and historical references. Near at hand is a chart of family genealogies, a glossary of proper names, and maps of Anglo-Saxon England and Denmark."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- A Longman cultural edition
- Uniform Title
- Longman cultural edition
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Poetry
- Poetry.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-234).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- A Summary of Beowulf -- Beowulf -- Contexts -- The Kin of Cain and The Race of Giants / The Holy Bible -- from Germania / Publius Cornelius Tacitus -- from On the Origin and Deeds and of the Goths / Jordanes -- from The History of the Franks / Bishop of Tours, Gregory -- From Liber monstrorum / Bishop of Tours, Gregory -- from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People / Bede -- from "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?" / Alcuin of York -- from History of the Britons / Nennius -- from Life of Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons / Asser -- from Chronicle / Aethelweard -- from About the Deeds of the English Kings / of Malmesbury, William -- from I brief History of the Kings of Denmark / Sven Aggesen -- from The Deeds of the Danes / Saxo Grammaticus -- Reading Beowulf -- The Manuscript Context -- Comparative Translations of the First Twenty-Five Lines of Beowulf -- from The History of the Manners, Landed Property, Government, Luurs, Poetry, Literature, Religion, and Language of the Anglo-Saxons / Sharon Turner -- from A Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Poem of Beowulf with a Copious Preface and Philological Notes / John M. Kemble -- from The Tale of Beowulf / William Morris and A. J. Wyatt -- from The Oldest English Epic: Beowulf, Finnsburg, Waldere, Deor, Widsith, and the German Hildebrand / Francis B. Gummere -- from Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment: A Translation into Modern English Prose by John R. Clark Hall / C. L. Wrenn -- from Beowulf in Modern English: A Translation in Blank Verse / Mary E. Waterhouse -- from Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English / Edwin Morgan -- from A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated / Stanley B. Greenfield -- from Beowulf: An Imitative Translation / Ruth P. M. Lehmann -- Old English Elegiac Poetry -- The Wanderer -- The Seafarer -- Deon -- The Ruin -- Old English Heroic Poetry -- The Battle of Finnsburg -- Waldere -- The Battle of Brunanburh -- Old English Wisdom Poetry -- Vainglory -- Widsith -- From the Fortunes of Men -- From Maxims I -- From Maxims II -- Riddles from the Exeter Book -- Old English Religious Poetry -- From Exodus -- From Judith -- From Christ III -- From Andreas -- Old English Historical Prose -- From the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entries for the years 793, 827, 855, 865, 878, 901, 946, and 993 -- Old English Legal Prose -- From the Laws of Alfred -- The Treaty between Alfred and Guthrum -- The Preface to the Laws of Cnut -- From the Laws of Cnut -- Old English Religious Prose -- From Blickling Homily XVI -- from On False Gods / Wulfstan -- From Sermon of the "Wolf" to the English / Wulfstan -- Old Norse Poetry -- From the Elder Edda: Sayings of the High Our and the Lay of Thrym -- Old Norse Prose -- From Grettir's Saga -- From Snorri Sturluson's Saga of the Yuglings -- From the Saga of King Hrolf Kraki -- From the Saga of Gold-Thorir -- From the Icelandic Folktale.
- ISBN
- 0321107209 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2003065901
- OCLC
- 53374794
- SCSB-12494629
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library