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(3.65) | None | Presents an annotated text of the saga of the hero Beowulf, slayer of the monster Grendel, and includes backgrounds and sources, as well as critical commentary. |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Beowulf | — | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Arnold, Ralph | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Baum, Paull F. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Cassidy, Frederic G. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Chambers, R. W. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Dobbie, E. V. K. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Donaldson, E. Talbot | Translator | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Donaldson, E. Talbot | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Goldsmith, Margaret E. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Greenfield, Stanley B. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hughes, Robert C. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Irving, Edward B., Jr. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Kaske, Robert Earl | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Klaeber, Fr. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lee, Alvin A. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Leyerle, John | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Malon, Kemp | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Rebsamen, Frederick R. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ringler, Richard N. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Sisam, Kenneth | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Stanley, E. G. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Tolkien, J. R. R. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Tuso, Joseph F. | Editor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Whitelock, Dorothy | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Wrenn, C. L. | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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This book is dedicated to
Lt. Col. Walton F. Dater, Jr. (1932–1974)
Warrior—Scholar—Friend
—he wæs manna mildust ond monðwærust— | |
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This volume offers the beginning student E. Talbot Donaldson's excellent modern prose translation of Beowulf.
(Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.) HWÆT WE GARDE
na ingear dagum þeod cyninga
þrym ge frunon huða æþelingas elle[n] fre medon. Oft scyld scefing sceathe[na]
(transliteration of the First Folio of the Cotton Beowulf; Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed) Yes, we have heard of the glory of the Spear-Danes' kings in the old days—how the princes of that people did brave deeds. Often Scyld Scefing
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They said that he was of world-kings the mildest of men and the gentlest, kindest to his people, and most eager for fame.
(translated by E. Talbot Donaldson, 1966; Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.) (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.) If the reader further accepts, as I do, the idea that the poet was here presenting his personal elegy for the demise of an old and in many ways admirable tradition at the moment when it was giving into and merging its best qualities with a new one, then Beowulf as a character grows less and less puzzling and begins to make very good sense indeed.
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This LT Work is a Norton Critical Edition of the epic poem, Beowulf, in the Donaldson Translation and edited by Joseph E. Tuso. Please do not combine it either with alternate versions of the Norton Critical Edition (e.g., the Seamus Heaney Translation, edited by Daniel Donoghue) or with the LT Work for the original poem itself. This is the first NCE edition of the Donaldson translation edited by Joseph F. Tuso. Please do not combine with the 2nd NCE edition edited by Nicholas Howe as the critical contents are entirely different. Thank you. This is the Norton Critical Edition of Beowulf. | |
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