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

"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...

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...

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: 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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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)...

the Final Judgment, for example, pervade other Old English poetry like Beowulf. Such does not seem to be the case with The Phoenix, which devotes passages...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Scholars have debated why this might be. Most scholars think that Bede was translating from a (probably oral) version of the Old English poem like one of the...

Scandinavian sources expand on his life as the king at Lejre and on his relationship with Halga, Hroðgar's brother. In Beowulf and Widsith, it is never explained...

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...

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...

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

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

and, after Beowulf, a poetic translation of Judith. Due to the fame of Beowulf, the Nowell Codex is also sometimes known simply as the Beowulf manuscript...