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Overview: The best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Williamson, Craig, 1943- (Editor , Traductor), Shippey, T. A. (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Old English
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011]
Colección:Middle Ages series.
Temas:
Beowulf, > King of the Geats > Poetry.
Grendel > (Monster) > Poetry.
Grendel > (Monster)
Beowulf, > King of the Geats
Beowulf > Translations into English.
Beowulf
Monsters > Poetry.
Dragons > Poetry.
Epic poetry, English (Old) > History and criticism.
Epic poetry, English (Old) > Translations into English.
Monstres > Poésie.
Dragons > Poésie.
Poésie épique anglaise (vieil anglais) > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Ancient & Classical.
Dragons
Epic poetry, English (Old)
Monsters
Scandinavia > Poetry.
Scandinavie > Poésie.
Scandinavia
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Poetry
Translations
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On translating Old English poetry
  • Beowulf
  • The battle of Maldon
  • Deor
  • The wanderer
  • The seafarer
  • The wife's lament
  • Wulf and Eadwacer
  • Selected Exeter Book riddles
  • Maxims II (Cotton maxims)
  • Charms
  • The fortunes of men
  • Cædmon's hymn
  • Physiologus: panther and whale
  • Vainglory
  • Two advent lyrics
  • The dream of the rood
  • Appendix A: digressions
  • battles, feuds, and family strife in Beowulf
  • Appendix B: Genealogies in Beowulf
  • Appendix C: two Scandinavian analogues of Beowulf
  • Appendix D: Possible riddle solutions.

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