þæt wæs god cyning. ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned, geong in geardum, þone god sende folce to frofre; fyrenðearfe ongeat þe hie ær drugon aldorlease lange hwile. Him þæs liffrea, wuldres wealdend, woroldare forgeaf; Beowulf wæs breme blæd wide sprang, Scyldes eafera Scedelandum in. þær wæs madma fela…

Beowulf is min nama. From Hygelac’s band. Beowulf is my name. Wille ic asecgan sunu Healfdenes, If your lord and master, the most renowned: 345: mærum þeodne, min ærende, Son of Halfdane, will hear me out: aldre þinum, gif he us geunnan wile: And graciously allow me to greet him in person, þæt we hine swa godne gretan moton.”

old and very grey, amid his company of earls; éode ellenróf þæt hé for eaxlum gestód . he strode grandly so that he stood by the shoulders: Deniga fréän: cúþe hé duguðe þéaw· of the Danes' lord: he knew the custom of veteran-warriors;

1 Not, of course, Beowulf the Great, hero of the epic. 2 Kenning for king or chieftain of a comitatus: he breaks o gold from the spiral rings often worn on the arm and so rewards his followers.

2003年10月12日 · Preface to the Project Gutenberg Edition of Beowulf. This text is a revised and corrected version of the fourth edition of Harrison and Sharp in its entirety. It comes in two basic versions. The base version (available in 8-bit (Latin-1) …

2005年7月19日 · Do we hear what has been beautifully called “the clanging tread of a warrior in mail”? Of all English translations of Beowulf, that of Professor Garnett alone gives any adequate idea of the chief characteristics of this great Teutonic epic.

Beowulf is the oldest surviving long poem written in Old English. Written between the 8th and 11th centuries by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, this poem survived in a single manuscript that was badly damaged in the 1731 Cotton Library fire.

The manuscript of Beowulf, the greatest poem in the Old English language, can now be viewed online for the first time. Made around the year 1000, most likely during the reign of King Æthelred the Unready (978-1016), this manuscript committed to parchment a tale that (in some modern scholars' opinions)...

Beowulf went from there, treading the grassy earth, a warrior-prince gold-proud, exultant in treasure. The sea-going ship, riding at anchor, awaited its steering master. Along the way the gifts of Hrothgar were often esteemed. He was a singular king, without blame in everything, until old age would seize him in the joy of his strength.

Beowulf is one of the first literary masterpieces of the English language, written in Old English in the eleventh century. The story itself is thought to have been originally composed sometime between 700 and 750. Beowulf, edited with Textual Foot-Notes, Index of Proper Names, and Alphabetical Glossary, by A.J. Wyatt.