| |
| |
List of Illustrations | |
| |
| |
About Longman Cultural Editions | |
| |
| |
About This Edition | |
| |
| |
Translators' Introduction | |
| |
| |
A Summary of Beowulf | |
| |
| |
Glossary of Proper Names | |
| |
| |
Table of Dates | |
| |
| |
Genealogies | |
| |
| |
Beowulf | |
| |
| |
Contexts | |
| |
| |
The Kin of Cain and The Race of Giants | |
| |
| |
from Germania | |
| |
| |
| |
from On the Origin and Deeds and of the Goths | |
| |
| |
from The History of the Franks | |
| |
| |
| |
From Liber monstrorum | |
| |
| |
| |
from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People | |
| |
| |
from "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?" | |
| |
| |
from History of the Britons | |
| |
| |
from Life of Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons | |
| |
| |
from Chronicle | |
| |
| |
from About the Deeds of the English Kings | |
| |
| |
| |
from I brief History of the Kings of Denmark | |
| |
| |
| |
from The Deeds of the Danes | |
| |
| |
| |
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 | |
| |
| |
| |
from A Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Poem of Beowulf with a Copious Preface and Philological Notes | |
| |
| |
| |
from The Tale of Beowulf | |
| |
| |
| |
from The Oldest English Epic: Beowulf, Finnsburg, Waldere, Deor, Widsith, and the German Hildebrand | |
| |
| |
| |
from Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment: A Translation into Modern English Prose by John R. Clark Hall | |
| |
| |
| |
from Beowulf in Modern English: A Translation in Blank Verse | |
| |
| |
| |
from Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English | |
| |
| |
| |
from A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated | |
| |
| |
| |
from Beowulf: An Imitative Translation | |
| |
| |
| |
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 | |
| |
| |
From Sermon of the "Wolf" to the English | |
| |
| |
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 | |
| |
| |
Further Reading | |