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Beowulf

  • Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
    Translation from Old English
    Audio Recording
     
    Language(s)
    English
  • Translator
    Crossley-Holland, Kevin
    Reader
    Crossley-Holland, Kevin
    Reader
    Duncan, Frank
    Reader
    King, David
    Reader
    Orr, Peter
    Reader
    Rylands, George
    Reader
    Scales, Prunella
    Reader
    Watson, Gary
    Director
    Orr, Peter
    Contributor
    Mitchell, Bruce
  • City
    London
    Publisher
    Argo Record Company
    Date
    1970
  • Relationships
    (Upstream) Is a performance of -> Beowulf, Crossley-Holland, Kevin (1968)
  • Descriptive Notes

    LP record; total duration 59:00. A semi-dramatized reading of excerpts from Crossley-Holland's 1968 full translation, divided into 8 segments. The sleeve copy includes an informational mini-essay by Mitchell and a note on the translation by Crossley-Holland. The several readers are not individually credited by role.

    The tracks are as follows (titles as given on sleeve):

    • Side 1, track 1: Introductory
    • Side 1, track 2: Beowulf comes to Denmark and to Heorot
    • Side 1, track 3: Beowulf kills Grendel
    • Side 1, track 4: Grendel's mother comes to Heorot
    • Side 2, track 1: Beowulf kills Grendel's mother
    • Side 2, track 2: Beowulf returns to Geatland
    • Side 2, track 3: Beowulf fights the Dragon
    • Side 2, track 4: Beowulf's Funeral

     
    Notes on Prior Documentation

    Not in MO1, GR, or MO2.

     
    Authentication

    BAM.

  • Last Updated
    04/03/2022