A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated by Alain Renoir, Stanley B. Greenfield

A Readable Beowulf: The Old English Epic Newly Translated

Alain Renoir, Stanley B. Greenfield

176 pages • first pub 1982 (editions)

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Stanley B. Greenfield, one of the world’s foremost Anglo-Saxon scholars, writes of why, after more than thirty years of study, he undertook the Herculean task of rendering Beowulf into con­temporary verse: “I wanted my translation to be not only f...

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