"On Translating Beowulf" is an essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the difficulties faced by anyone attempting to translate the Old English heroic-elegiac...

The difficulty of translating Beowulf from its compact, metrical, alliterative form in a single surviving but damaged Old English manuscript into any...

Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary is a prose translation of the early medieval epic poem Beowulf from Old English to modern English. Translated by...

including J. R. R. Tolkien (in his essay "On Translating Beowulf"), who worked on a verse and a prose translation of his own. The events in the poem take...

Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (also known as Heaneywulf) is a verse translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into modern English by the Irish...

This is a list of translations of Beowulf, one of the best-known Old English heroic epic poems. Beowulf has been translated many times in verse and in...

"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" was a 1936 lecture given by J. R. R. Tolkien on literary criticism on the Old English heroic epic poem Beowulf...

has risen to national epic status in England. Beowulf has been adapted many times in verse, in prose, on the stage, and in film. In 2003, the Arizona Center...

of "On Translating Beowulf", which Christopher Tolkien notes in his foreword is not addressed to an academic audience. The essays are: "Beowulf: The...

Intégrale (in French). Translated by Lauzon, Daniel. Pocket. ISBN 978-2-266-28626-8. Tolkien, J. R. R. (1997). "On Translating Beowulf". The Monsters and...

prepared Beowulf for publication by 1807. During the Battle of Copenhagen (1807) his house was burned and demolished due to fire, and the text (on which...

The nature of the scop in Beowulf is addressed by another scholar-translator, Hugh Magennis, in his book Translating Beowulf. He discusses the poem's lines...

for his vigorous translation of Beowulf, still widely used in universities, colleges and high schools. Other important translations include Miguel de...

Beowulf is a 2007 American animated fantasy action film produced and directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary, based on the...

Beowulf (/ˈbeɪəwʊlf/; Old English: Bēowulf [ˈbeːowuɫf]) is a legendary Geatish hero in the eponymous epic poem, one of the oldest surviving pieces of...

of his book on translating Beowulf to it. Criticism, scholarship, educational The Poetic Achievement of Ezra Pound (1979) York Notes on Geoffrey Chaucer's...

Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf (700–1000 AD). He is one of the poem's three antagonists (along with his mother and the dragon)...

Other Essays (an essay collection) "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936) "On Translating Beowulf" (1940) "On Fairy-Stories" (1947) "A Secret Vice"...

poem Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD), the other two being Grendel and the dragon. Each antagonist reflects different negative aspects of both the hero Beowulf and...

a major source for reconstructing them. J.R.R. Tolkien's essay "On Translating Beowulf" analyses the rules as used in the poem. Old English poetry, even...

Tolkien, a fantasy author and professional philologist, drew on the Old English poem Beowulf for multiple aspects of his Middle-earth legendarium, alongside...

Press). Edition and translation. Herren, M. W. 1987. The Hisperica Famina: II. Related Poems: A Critical Edition with English Translation and Philological...

came to the scribe's attention".: 35  Oswald Cockayne, who edited and translated the Leechbook in 1865, made note in his introduction of what he termed...

R. Tolkien, "Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of 'Beowulf'", which was later restyled "On Translating Beowulf" for the compilation The Monsters...

judged after his death-day. In a literal translation by Leo Shirley-Price, the text reads as: Before setting forth on that inevitable journey, none is wiser...

act of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf includes Beowulf's fight with a dragon, the third monster he encounters in the epic. On his return from Heorot, where...

illustrates many of the features of Old English poetry in his 1940 essay "On Translating Beowulf". Old English poetry alliterates, meaning that a sound is repeated...

This is a list of Beowulf characters. Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem. Its creation dates to between the 8th and the 11th centuries, the only...

special tingly flavour of intelligent SF." Translation studies Machine translation "On Translating Beowulf" "Ma Mignonne". At Play in a Field of Words...

charms, consisting of writing the names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus on Communion wafers before reciting a galdor: It has been noted that several...