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From Beowulf

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Translation from Old English
    Anthology
     
    Language(s)
    English
  • Translator
    Crossley-Holland, Kevin
    Compiling Editor
    Heaney, Seamus
    Compiling Editor
    Hughes, Ted
  • Contained in
    The School Bag, ed. Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes
    Location Details
    Pages 482-84
    City
    London
    Publisher
    Faber & Faber
    Date
    1997
  • Relationships
    (Upstream) Extracts from and recontextualizes -> Beowulf, Crossley-Holland, Kevin (1968)
  • Descriptive Notes

    Book is xviii + 590 pp. Anthology presentation of 44-line excerpt (end of poem) from Crossley-Holland's 1968 full translation. The excerpt begins:

    Then, on the headland, the Geats prepared a mighty pyre
    for Beowulf, hung round with helmets and shields
    and shining mail, in accordance with his wishes;
    and then the mourning warriors laid
    their dear lord, the famous prince, upon it.

    And ends:

    Then twelve brave warriors, sons of heroes,
    rode round the barrow, sorrowing;
    they mourned their king, chanted
    an elegy, spoke about that great man:
    they exalted his heroic life, lauded
    his daring deeds; it is fitting for a man,
    when his lord and friend must leave this life,
    to mouth words in his praise
    and to cherish his memory.
    Thus the Geats, his hearth-companions,
    grieved over the death of their lord;
    they said that of all kings on earth
    he was the kindest, the most gentle,
    the most just to his people, the most eager for fame. (484)

     
    Notes on Prior Documentation

    Not in MO2.

     
    Authentication

    BAM.

  • Last Updated
    03/22/2022