beowulf

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• - A modern adaptation in free verse by David Breeden.
  
• - Includes questions for discussion, a bibliography of essential readings, and links to Beowulf sites. By Roy M. Liuzza, a Beowulf translator.
  
• - This bibliography of literary criticism of Beowulf includes anthologies, books, articles, and sources and analogues. At the University of Virginia.
  
• - Contains both the original Old English text and a modern translation, with the ability to hyperlink to any section of the original or the translation.
  
• - Contains sound files for selected passages of the poem.
  
• - Benjamin Slade's critical edition of Beowulf, together with a facing-page translation, explanatory notes, glossary, supplemental texts and translations, background material, and links.
  
• - Interlinear translation at the University of Toronto. This has the Old English text and the Gummere translation interleaved, line by line, with line numbers.
  
• - Translation by Francis B. Gummere. From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.
  
• - Old English text of lines 702 - 897 (Beowulf's encounter with Grendel) together with a glossary. Each word of the text is hot-linked to a corresponding glossary entry.
  
• - Online help facility for the image-based CD-ROM edition of the manuscript. Includes manuscript images and explanations of the Electronic Beowulf project.
  
• - Interpretation of the Beowulf poem by Lynn Harry Nelson, Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, University of Kansas.
  
• - Translation by Clarence Griffin Child.
  
• - Syd Allan's site presents some of the work done by Beowulf translators and scholars. Contents include comparisons of different translations, maps and images, and other resources.
  
• - Research guide from the University of Nevada, Reno. Provides links, articles, and other resources.
  
• - Introductory article on Beowulf from the Wikipedia online encyclopedia. Covers background and origins of the poem, presents storyline and themes, explains influence of Beowulf on later writers, provides an excerpt from the poem with a facing modern Englis
  
• - Translations of sections of the poem by Paul Deane and by Alan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy. Includes links to complete translations, to the original Old English text, and to Beowulf resources.
  
• - Annotated bibliography for students, compiled by Martin Irvine.
  
• - Andrew Ford's description of the Electronic Beowulf project.
  
• - Complete Old English text as it appears in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records edition. From the Labyrinth Library.
  
• - Complete text of Beowulf as it appears in the Klaeber edition. From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.