LEADER 04523nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910788580503321 005 20210527203411.0 010 $a1-283-89725-3 010 $a0-8122-0440-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812204407 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064696 035 $a(OCoLC)794700568 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641576 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606173 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11372075 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606173 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10581327 035 $a(PQKB)10908263 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8300 035 $a(DE-B1597)449382 035 $a(OCoLC)979748411 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812204407 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441741 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641576 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420975 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441741 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064696 100 $a20110617d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBeowulf and other Old English poems$b[electronic resource] /$fedited and translated by Craig Williamson ; with a foreword by Tom Shippey 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (xxxi, 255 pages) 225 1 $aThe Middle Ages Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2275-X 311 $a0-8122-4345-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [245]-252) and index. 327 $aOn 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 -- Cędmon'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. 330 $aThe best-known literary achievement of Anglo-Saxon England, Beowulf is a poem concerned with monsters and heroes, treasure and transience, feuds and fidelity. Composed sometime between 500 and 1000 C.E. and surviving in a single manuscript, it is at once immediately accessible and forever mysterious. And in Craig Williamson's splendid new version, this often translated work may well have found its most compelling modern English interpreter.Williamson's Beowulf appears alongside his translations of many of the major works written by Anglo-Saxon poets, including the elegies "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer," the heroic "Battle of Maldon," the visionary "Dream of the Rood," the mysterious and heart-breaking "Wulf and Eadwacer," and a generous sampling of the Exeter Book riddles. Accompanied by a foreword by noted medievalist Tom Shippey on Anglo-Saxon history, culture, and archaeology, and Williamson's introductions to the individual poems as well as his essay on translating Old English, the texts transport us back to the medieval scriptorium or ancient mead hall to share an exile's lament or herdsman's recounting of the story of the world's creation. From the riddling song of a bawdy onion that moves between kitchen and bedroom, to the thrilling account of Beowulf's battle with a treasure-hoarding dragon, the world becomes a place of rare wonder in Williamson's lines. Were his idiom not so modern, we might almost think the Anglo-Saxon poets had taken up the lyre again and begun to sing after a silence of a thousand years. 410 0$aMiddle Ages series. 606 $aEpic poetry, English (Old)$vTranslations into English 606 $aEpic poetry, English (Old)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDragons$vPoetry 606 $aMonsters$vPoetry 607 $aScandinavia$vPoetry 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aPoetry. 615 0$aEpic poetry, English (Old) 615 0$aEpic poetry, English (Old)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDragons 615 0$aMonsters 676 $a829/.3 701 $aWilliamson$b Craig$f1943-$01031186 701 $aShippey$b T. A$0163660 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788580503321 996 $aBeowulf and other Old English poems$93678338 997 $aUNINA