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Beowulf

af Beowulf Poet

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Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.… (mere)
Nyligt tilføjet afSamwiseJones, FHSRC, Stropheus
Efterladte bibliotekerGillian Rose, Terence Kemp McKenna, T. E. Lawrence
  1. 254
    Grendel af John Gardner (lyzadanger, sweetandsyko, sturlington)
    lyzadanger: Stunning prose from the point of view of the monster.
    sturlington: Grendel is a retelling of Beowulf from the monster's pov.
  2. 161
    Homers Iliade af Homer (benmartin79)
  3. 142
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight af Anonymous (OwenGriffiths, chrisharpe)
    OwenGriffiths: If you like Old/Middle English texts translated by great poets...
  4. 144
    Hobbitten eller Ud og hjem igen af J. R. R. Tolkien (benmartin79)
  5. 101
    The Icelandic Sagas af Magnus Magnusson (BGP)
  6. 101
    Nibelungenlied af Anonymous (Weasel524)
    Weasel524: Embodies and champions the same spirit/ideals commonly shared by norse mythology, scandanavian sagas, and northern germanic folklore. Significantly longer and different in structure, should that be of concern
  7. 112
    Dødsæderne af Michael Crichton (PaulRackleff)
    PaulRackleff: Michael Crichton had written "Eaters of the Dead" as a means to show Beowulf's story value. The character names and plot line are very similar. Though Crichton changed some elements to make it more interesting than just a copy of Beowulf.
  8. 71
    The Táin af Táin author (BGP)
  9. 82
    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Pearl / Cleanness / Patience af A. C. Cawley (OwenGriffiths)
  10. 71
    The Sagas of Icelanders af Örnólfur Thorsson (chrisharpe)
  11. 40
    The First Poems in English (Penguin Classics) af Michael Alexander (octothorp)
  12. 74
    Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders af Neil Gaiman (moonstormer)
    moonstormer: the short story in Fragile Things - Monarch of the Glen - is very related to Beowulf and could be seen as an interesting commentary.
  13. 41
    The Mere Wife af Maria Dahvana Headley (Cecrow)
  14. 00
    Beowulf af Benjamin Bagby (gwernin)
  15. 00
    Understanding Beowulf As an Indo-European Epic: A Study in Comparative Mythology af Earl R. Anderson (questionablepotato)
  16. 14
    Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 af Seamus Heaney (JessamyJane)
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This is an incredible translation. I had no idea how difficult or engaging Beowulf would be when I read this many years ago, but I thought a translation by Seamus Heaney would make it at least interesting. It was a wonderful read. ( )
  lschiff | Sep 24, 2023 |
Beowulf, “A hero’s been sent here by Heaven to defend the Danes from Grendel!”

“Now his mother was here, carried on a wave of wrath, crazed with sorrow, looking for someone to slay, someone to pay in pain for her heart’s loss.”

And then, an angry dragon. And an EPIC battle! A pretty good read, though I was confused a bit at times. Glad to have finally read this, and I'm glad that this was the translation that got me to do it!

“Living has killed us all. We’re dustbinned by destiny.” ( )
  Stahl-Ricco | Aug 13, 2023 |
I had to read Beowulf for my British Literature class, and my goodness was it one excellent read! I had heard vicious rumours that Beowulf was difficult to read and rather boring, and they were all wrong. I found Beowulf to be an exciting epic that grasped my attention better than Games of Thrones or the Witcher ever did. I was truly blown away and really loved reading into this story. It did help having an English Professor walking us through some of it, but either way it was marvellous.

Beowulf is a warrior coming to Hrothgar's aid. The wicked monster Grendel has plagued Heorot (Hrothgar's famous mead hall) for twelve long years. Nothing has gotten rid of the vicious monster who was tormenting them and killing off all the Spear-Dane men he could find. Good ole Beowulf comes around and slaughters him, has to deal with Grendel's Mother and finally has to fight a dragon. Can you get any more epic than that?

I can see how this poem influenced a lot of today's modern stories. It's truly epic and really interesting. I really liked this poem and want to read more like it. It's a truly marvellous classic.

Five out of five stars. ( )
  Briars_Reviews | Aug 4, 2023 |
I really liked this book, but then again I was reading it because I wanted to and not because a teacher was making me. ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
This translation made the news as the first one done by a woman. TBH I don't think I would have been able to tell if I'd been presented with it without the translator being accredited.

From time to time I found the translator's choices aggressively modern to the point they jerked me out of the story so that I wished I had my Seamus Heaney translation with me to see how he had translated that part. But I still enjoyed reading it enough to want to listen to an audio version to see how that stands up. The ebook version I read was badly formatted so that the introduction to the translation was difficult to read and so I gave up and just read the poem. ( )
  Robertgreaves | Jul 27, 2023 |
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At the beginning of the new millennium, one of the surprise successes of the publishing season is a 1,000-year-old masterpiece. The book is ''Beowulf,'' Seamus Heaney's modern English translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic, which was created sometime between the 7th and the 10th centuries.
tilføjet af danielx | RedigerNew York Times, Mel Gussow (Mar 29, 2000)
 
Translation is not mainly the work of preserving the hearth -- a necessary task performed by scholarship -- but of letting a fire burn in it.
tilføjet af danielx | RedigerNew York Times, Richard Eder (Feb 2, 2000)
 

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And now this is 'an inheritance' -
Upright, rudimentary, unshiftably planked
In the long ago, yet willable forward

Again and again and again
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(Seamus Heaney ed., 1999).
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Seamus Heaney (1999)
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This book is meant to make Beowulf available as poetry who have not studied Old English (Anglo-Saxon) before and to those who have only a rudimentary knowledge of it.
Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings! In the old days,
everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound.

(translated by Maria Dahvana Headley, 2020)
Introduction

Beowulf is written in the unrhymed four-beat alliteratie meter of Old English poetry.
Of the strength of the Spear-Danes in days gone by we have heard, and of their hero-kings: the prodigious deeds those princes perfomed!

(translated by Stephen Mitchell, 2017)
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Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and dies in old age in a vivid fight against a dragon. The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, and then having to live on in the exhausted aftermath. In the contours of this story, at once remote and uncannily familiar at the end of the twentieth century, Seamus Heaney finds a resonance that summons power to the poetry from deep beneath its surface. Drawn to what he has called the "four-squareness of the utterance" in Beowulf and its immense emotional credibility, Heaney gives these epic qualities new and convincing reality for the contemporary reader.

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