Beowulf: A Verse Translation

Winner of the Whitbread Prize, Seamus Heaney's translation "accomplishes what before now had seemed impossible: a faithful rendering that is simultaneously an original and gripping poem in its own right" (New York Times Book Review).

Seamus Heaney received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. A resident of Dublin since 1976, he teaches regularly at Harvard University

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Old English Language and Poetics	p. xv
Translator's Introduction	p. xxiii
The Text of Beowulf	p. 1
Contexts	p. 79
The Beowulf Manuscript	p. 81
Genesis 4.1-16 Cain and Abel	p. 84
Hall-Feasts and the Queen	p. 85
Grettir the Strong and the Trollwoman	p. 86
The Frisian Slaughter: Episode and Fragment	p. 89
Alcuin "What has Ingeld to do with Christ?"	p. 91
Gregory of Tours History of the Franks [Hygelac's Raid into Frisia]	p. 93
William of Malmesbury [Genealogy of the Royal Family of Wessex]	p. 93
On the Wars between the Swedes and the Geats	p. 94
Genealogies of the Royal Families in Beowulf	p. 95
The Kingdoms and Tribes of Beowulf	p. 96
Map: The Scandinavian Setting of Beowulf	p. 97
Beowulf's Name	p. 98
Criticism	p. 101
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics	p. 103
The Interlace Structure of Beowulf	p. 130
The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother	p. 152
The Beowulf Poet's Sense of History	p. 167
The Tomb of Beowulf	p. 181
The Christian Language and Theme of Beowulf	p. 197
Archaeology and Beowulf	p. 212
The Philologer Poet: Seamus Heaney and the Translation of Beowulf	p. 237
Glossary of Personal Names	p. 248
Selected Bibliography	p. 251
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