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Beowulf, A Translation

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Beowulf, A Translation

Year

2012

Publisher

Punctum Books

Language

English; Old (ca. 450-1100)

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22-Oct-2024

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Language & Literature

Description

he Old English poem known in the modern era as Beowulf consists of some 3182 lines of alliterative verse. The poem is preserved on folios 129r to 198v of a unique and badly damaged Anglo-Saxon manuscript sometimes called the ‘Nowell Codex’ and now known by its shelf mark as the London, British Library, MS. Cotton Vitellius A.XV. The text was copied by two different scribes, bound alongside a poetic version of Judith (the deuterocanonical Biblical narrative), a prose version of the Life of Saint Christopher, and two texts of marvelous geography known as The Wonders of the East and Alexander’s...

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