Beowulf, A Longman Cultural Edition

by Anonymous, Timothy; Anderson, Sarah; Translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy

• ISBN13: 9780321107206
• ISBN10: 0321107209
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-07
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series,Beowulf , edited by Sarah Anderson and translated by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, includes the complete work and contextual materials on the early medieval age. This edition ofBeowulf contains the translation of the work by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy, with additional commentary and notes by editor Sarah Anderson, that explain unfamiliar terms, cultural references, and literary allusions; also included are maps of Anglo-Saxon England and Denmark, a glossary of proper names, and genealogies--all designed to assist readers in understanding this fascinating work. Readers interested inBeowulf

Author Biography

Sarah M. Anderson received her Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University.  Before coming to Princeton, Anderson was a research fellow at The Arnamagnæan Institute at the University of Copenhagen, where she studied and edited Old Icelandic sagas; she also worked on the Dictionary of Old Norse Prose.  At Princeton, she is a member of both the Department of English and the Council of the Humanities. She specializes in early medieval language and literature, particularly in Old English, Old Norse and Old Icelandic, with strong secondary interests in textual criticism, Middle English literature and Arthuriana. As a fellow at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities, Anderson investigated early printed editions of the sagas from Iceland, Sweden, and Denmark, placing these editions in the context of contention for national identity. In addition to articles and reviews, her publications include Cold Counsel: Women in Old Norse Literature and Mythology (Routledge, 2002) and the Introduction, notes, glossary, and contextual material to Beowulf: A Longman’s Cultural Edition (Pearson, 2004). In the English department, Anderson teaches courses on Old English, Middle English romance, Arthurian literature, Old Icelandic sagas, comparative studies of early heroic literature, and fantasy; and in the Council of the Humanities, she has taught “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.”  She is now developing courses on medieval concepts of monster, medieval travel narratives and sacred space, and medieval European representations of Arthur.

Table of Contents

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	p. 1
Contexts	p. 89
The Kin of Cain and The Race of Giants	p. 91
from Germania	p. 93
from On the Origin and Deeds and of the Goths	p. 96
from The History of the Franks	p. 98
From Liber monstrorum	p. 98
from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People	p. 100
from "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?"	p. 105
from History of the Britons	p. 107
from Life of Alfred, King of the Anglo-Saxons	p. 108
from Chronicle	p. 114
from About the Deeds of the English Kings	p. 115
from I brief History of the Kings of Denmark	p. 116
from The Deeds of the Danes	p. 118
Reading Beowulf	p. 125
The Manuscript Context	p. 126
Comparative Translations of the First Twenty-Five Lines of Beowulf	p. 128
from The History of the Manners, Landed Property, Government, Luurs, Poetry, Literature, Religion, and Language of the Anglo-Saxons	p. 130
from A Translation of the Anglo-Saxon Poem of Beowulf with a Copious Preface and Philological Notes	p. 131
from The Tale of Beowulf	p. 132
from The Oldest English Epic: Beowulf, Finnsburg, Waldere, Deor, Widsith, and the German Hildebrand	p. 133
from Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment: A Translation into Modern English Prose by John R. Clark Hall	p. 134
from Beowulf in Modern English: A Translation in Blank Verse	p. 134
from Beowulf: A Verse Translation into Modern English	p. 135
from A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated	p. 136
from Beowulf: An Imitative Translation	p. 137
Old English Elegiac Poetry	p. 138
The Wanderer	p. 138
The Seafarer	p. 142
Deon	p. 145
The Ruin	p. 146
Old English Heroic Poetry	p. 148
The Battle of Finnsburg	p. 148
Waldere	p. 150
The Battle of Brunanburh	p. 152
Old English Wisdom Poetry	p. 157
Vainglory	p. 157
Widsith	p. 159
From the Fortunes of Men	p. 163
From Maxims I	p. 166
From Maxims II	p. 169
Riddles from the Exeter Book	p. 170
Old English Religious Poetry	p. 174
From Exodus	p. 174
From Judith	p. 178
From Christ III	p. 180
From Andreas	p. 181
Old English Historical Prose	p. 183
From the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entries for the years 793, 827, 855, 865, 878, 901, 946, and 993	p. 183
Old English Legal Prose	p. 188
From the Laws of Alfred	p. 188
The Treaty between Alfred and Guthrum	p. 189
The Preface to the Laws of Cnut	p. 190
From the Laws of Cnut	p. 191
Old English Religious Prose	p. 192
From Blickling Homily XVI	p. 192
from On False Gods	p. 193
From Sermon of the "Wolf" to the English	p. 194
Old Norse Poetry	p. 197
From the Elder Edda: Sayings of the High Our and the Lay of Thrym	p. 197
Old Norse Prose	p. 200
From Grettir's Saga	p. 200
From Snorri Sturluson's Saga of the Yuglings	p. 207
From the Saga of King Hrolf Kraki	p. 219
From the Saga of Gold-Thorir	p. 223
From the Icelandic Folktale	p. 226
Further Reading	p. 229
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