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First Forth Gewat

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Poem or Poetry
    Translation from Old English
     
    Language(s)
    English
  • Author
    Wilbur, Richard
  • Contained in
    Notes on Heroes (I-IV)
    Serial Title
    Wake
    Location Details
    Volume 6, pages 80-83, item I (at p. 80).
    Date
    1948
  • Relationships
    Collocates with -> Beowulf, Wilbur, Richard (1948)
    (Downstream) Reproduced in new context as -> "Fyrst forth gewat …", Wilbur, Richard (1982)
  • Identifying Numbers
    Fry 2212 (part I); MO2 1948.
     
    Descriptive Notes

    A translation of Beowulf, ll. 210-24a, presented as a lyric poem, accompanied by three other short poems: "Beowulf" (item II), "'It Is Time To Reveal Joy'" (item III), and "Still, Citizen Sparrow" (item IV).

    The translated passage begins:

    Then the time came     when the boat was on the tide,
    the ship under the shore-cliffs.

    And ends:

    so that the seafarers     sighted the mainland,
    sea-cliffs shining,     steep elevations,
    high wide headlands;     then was the haven found,
    the ocean-voyage over … (80, ellipsis in original)

     
    Notes on Prior Documentation

    Not in GR or MO1.

    MO2 gives the line numbers of the translation incorrectly as 210-14a.

     
    Authentication

    BAM (from digital images provided by the library of Kansas State University).

  • Last Updated
    03/29/2022
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