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[Kennedy translation accompanying Dunn audio recording]

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Translation from Old English
     
    Language(s)
    English
  • Translator
    Kennedy, Charles W.
  • Contained in
    Liner notes to Early English Poetry, performed by Charles W. Dunn
    Location Details
    Pages [6]-[7] of booklet accompaning LP record
    City
    New York
    Publisher
    Folkways Records
    Date
    1958
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  • Descriptive Notes

    Extract from Kennedy's 1940 translation included in 12-page booklet accompanying the LP record Early English Poetry, a selection of Old and Middle English poetry read by Charles W. Dunn. The Beowulf segment, consisting of ll. 2724-3182, begins:

    Beowulf spoke, though his hurt was sore,
    The wounds of battle grievous and grim.
    Full well he weened that his life was ended,
    And all the joy of his years on earth;
    That his days were done, and Death most near:
    "My armor and sword I would leave to my son
    Had Fate but granted, born of my body,
    An heir to follow me after I'm gone.
    For fifty winters I've ruled this realm,
    And never a lord of a neighboring land
    Dared strike with terror or seek with sword.
    In my life I abode by the lot assigned,
    Kept well what was mine, courted no quarrels,
    Swore no false oaths. And now for all this
    Though my hurt is grievous, my  heart is glad. ([6])

    And ends:

    Then round the mound rode the brave in battle,
    The sons of warriors, twelve in a band,
    Bemoaning their sorrow and mourning their king.
    They sang their dirge and spoke of the hero
    Vaunting his valor and venturous deeds.
    So is it proper a man should praise
    His friendly lord with a loving heart,
    When his soul must forth from the fleeting flesh.
    So the folk of the Geats, the friends of his hearth,
    Bemoaned the fall of their mighty lord;
    Said he was kindest of worldly kings,
    Mildest, most gentle, most eager for fame. ([7])

     
    Notes on Prior Documentation

    Not in Fry, MO1, GR, or MO2.

     
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