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Fragmento

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Poem or Poetry
     
    Language(s)
    Spanish
  • Author
    Borges, Jorge Luis
  • Contained in
    Obras completas, by Jorge Luis Borges
    Location Details
    Volume 2, page 282
    Date
    1996
  • Relationships
    (Upstream) Reproduces in new context -> Fragmento, Borges, Jorge Luis (1964)
  • Descriptive Notes

    Volume 2 (of 4) of Borges' Obras Completas, covering the period from 1952 to 1972, is 526 pp. Both "Composición escrita en un ejemplar de la gesta de Beowulf" and "Fragmento" are grouped within El otro, el mismo (1964), where "Fragmento" originally appeared and where "Composición" was reprinted from Antología personal (1961) with its misspelled title corrected. This edition does not capitalize each verse line as Borges had previously done, and the punctuation of "Fragmento" is slightly changed.

    "Fragmento" begins:

    Una espada,
    una espada de hierro forjada en el frío del alba,
    una espada con runas
    que nadie podrá desoír ni descifrar del todo,
    una espada del Báltico que será cantada en Nortumbria. (282)

    And ends:

    una espada para la mano
    que ganará un reino y perderá un reino,
    una espada para la mano
    que derribará la selva de lanzas.
    Una espada para la mano de Beowulf. (282)

     
    Notes on Prior Documentation

    Not in MO2.

     
    Authentication

    BAM.

  • Last Updated
    03/30/2022