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Beowulf Resources

Snippets Translated on this Site
  • Grappling with Grendel (lines 702-836). Translation by Keith Moul
  • Grappling with Grendel (lines 702-836). Translation by Allan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy
  • The Haunted Mere (lines 1308-1382). Translation by Allan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy
  • The Haunted Mere (lines 1338b-1379). Translation by Bruce Byfield
  • Home to Hygelac (lines 1880-1924). Translation by Allan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy
  • Fighting the Fire-Drake (lines 2510-2586). Translation by Allan Sullivan and Timothy Murphy
  • Beowulf Lies Dead Beside the Dragon. (lines 2821-2840). Adaptation by Paul D. Deane.
Elsewhere on the Web
Old English Text
Interlinear Text (Both Old English and Modern English)
Full Translations
  • Alliterative (Romano)
  • Alliterative, with audio (Ringler)
  • Free Verse (Breeden)
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Published Translations
Other Resources
  • Grendel's Mother (Pace)
  • Christian Elements (Pace)
  • Electronic Beowulf
  • Gareth S. Jones (ongoing translation)
  • Beowulf Resources for students of Old English language & literature
  • BeowulfTranslations.net provides resources on Beowulf, including comparisons of over 100 English translations
  • CLASP (A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry) provides parses of Old English poetry, including Beowulf.
  • Tolkien & The Anglo-Saxon Heritage of Beowulf by Pauline Park
  • The Misconception Behind Beowulf’s Name and The Syntax of Beowulf by Graham Scheper
  • The Status of Hwæt in Old English, by George Walkden
Beowulf Performed
The "Ethereal" Beowulf Peformed by Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism
  • Part I
  • Part II
Beowulf: The Epic in Performance - Benjamin Bagby, voice and medieval harp
Seamus Heaney reading his translation of Beowulf
A.Z. Foreman reciting lines 1-228 of Beowulf
Rahul Gupta: Shield's Ship-Funeral Rahul Gupta: The Weather-Geats' Voyage to Denmark Rahul Gupta: The Weather-Geats' Voyage Home
External links on this page connect to content drawn from the following sources: Internet History Sourcebooks Project, Beowulf on Steorarume (Beowulf in Cyberspace), Beowulf to Lear: Text, Image, and Hypertext, SCA East Kingdom Ethereal, Tim Romano, Gareth Jones, Internet History Sourcebooks Project, University of Wisconsin Libraries, Lone Star Internet Culture Cafe, and the 92nd Street Y.
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