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Beowulf Translations
Beowulf Translations
Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16328/16328-h/16328-h.htm
Poetry Foundation - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50114/beowulf-modern-english-translation
Benjamin Slade (Diacritically Marked) - https://heorot.dk/beowulf-rede-text.html
Beowulf Audio
Studying Beowulf
Animated Books - illustrated walk through of text
Course Hero - straightforward breakdown of information. Playlist of Beowulf content of poem by line number.
Overly Sarcastic Productions - Accurate and supremely 'un-serious' translation of the action in Beowulf. Caution on language.
Beowulf a Summary in English Prose DL Ashliman via Pittsburgh University
SparkNotes - https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/beowulf/summary/
What's so special about the Manuscript? https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/beowulf
Excerpts from the British Library...
Beowulf is the longest epic poem in Old English, the language spoken in Anglo-Saxon England before the Norman Conquest. More than 3,000 lines long, Beowulf relates the exploits of its eponymous hero, and his successive battles with a monster named Grendel, with Grendel’s revengeful mother, and with a dragon which was guarding a hoard of treasure.
The most likely time for Beowulf to have been copied is the early 11th century, which makes the manuscript approximately 1,000 years old.
by University of Kentuky and British Library
by University of Kentuky and British Library
The online edition is designed to meet the needs of general readers, who require a full, line by line, translation; of students, who want to understand the grammar and the meter and still have time in a semester to study and appreciate other important aspects of the poem; and of scholars, who want immediate access to a critical apparatus identifying the nearly 2000 eighteenth-century restorations, editorial emendations, and manuscript-based conjectural restorations.
The Atlantic - Beowulf is Back!
Beowulf (2007) by Robert Zemekis free on YouTube with ads. It has flaws but sticks to the story relatively well; just don't forget to read poem as the few departures from the poem involve major changes.
The 13th Warrior (1999) by John McTiernan for streaming on multiple platforms. An outsiders view to what could have been Beowulf's true story.
Outlander (2008) by Howard McCain free on YouTube with ads. What if the 'outlander' or 'outsider' wasn't a superhero strong Viking, but an alien? Hi-Tech meets c1000 Old English customs and people.
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