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Why Tolkien’s Beowulf is an ‘amazing book but a terrible translation’

Medievalists.net — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 04:07:15 +0000

In the spring of 2014 a translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was published. Last week, Andy Orchard, one of the leading scholars of Old English, offered his thoughts about the book and revealed that he will be writing his own translation of the famous medieval poem.

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Scribal Practice in the Beowulf Manuscript

Medievalists.net — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:08:43 +0000

There was a time, not too long ago, when we thought we knew a great deal more about Beowulf than we do now.

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Senses of the Past: The Old English Vocabulary of History

Medievalists.net — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 02:57:28 +0000

How did the Anglo-Saxons think about history?

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Beowulf and the Comic Book: Contemporary Readings

Medievalists.net — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:11:20 +0000

This paper explores the appropriation of the Old English poem by modern popular culture in such a distinctive 20th-century art-form as the comic book, which proves that a heroic, legendary story already old for the Anglo-Saxons —it was set in geardagum, 'the ancient days'— still elicits the interest of the audience in the modern world.

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Gareth Hinds’ Beowulf

Medievalists.net — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 16:27:14 +0000

Dark and visceral, the graphic novel version of Beowulf created by Gareth Hinds is considered to be one of the most successful adaptations of the Old English tale.

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Reinventing the Hero: Gardner’s Grendel and the Shifting Face of Beowulf in Popular Culture

Medievalists.net — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 03:12:53 +0000

In twentieth- and twenty-first century Anglophone culture, the impact of Beowulfiana — what we call that amorphous mass of materials that have accumulated around the poem — has been widespread yet subtle.

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Grendel and Cain’s Descendants

Medievalists.net — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 15:28:02 +0000

Grendel and Cain’s Descendants By Thalia Phillies Feldman Literary Onomastics Studies, Vol.8 (1981) Introduction: The epic of Beowulf has long been subjected to severe Christological scrutiny with scholars tending either to strong commitment to it as Christian allegory, or to equally strong opposition, regarding it instead as thoroughly pagan though lightly touched by the Old […]

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Roses are Red, Violets are Beowulf

Medievalists.net — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 03:12:39 +0000

Let’s take five minutes to look at medieval alliterative poetry, using some of the most famous poems of the period.

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The Anglo-Saxon War-Culture and The Lord of the Rings: Legacy and Reappraisal

Medievalists.net — Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:56:08 +0000

The literature of war in English claims its origin from the Homeric epics, and the medieval accounts of chivalry and the crusades.

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J.R.R. Tolkien and the morality of monstrosity

Medievalists.net — Sat, 03 Jan 2015 20:24:13 +0000

J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth is Beowulf for the twentieth century.

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