TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fafinski,Mateusz
AU  - Treharne,Elaine
AU  - Abbott,Jean
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Beowulf by All : : Community Translation and Workbook / 
T2  - Foundations
SN  - 9781641894746
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Leeds
PB  - Arc Humanities Press
KW  - Epic poetry, English (Old)
KW  - fast
KW  - Epic poetry
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Translated from Old English by over 200 translators; Open Access
N2  - This is a community translation of the earliest English epic poem. Beowulf tells the story of a mythical hero in northern Europe in, perhaps, the sixth century. Alongside his story, multiple other shorter narratives are told and many other voices are heard, making it a rich and varied account of the poet's views of heroism, conflict, loyalty, and the human condition. The poem is widely taught in schools and universities, and has been adapted, modernized, and translated dozens of times, but this is the first large-scale polyvocal translation. Readers will encounter the voices of over two hundred individuals, woven together into a reading experience that is at once productively dissonant, yet strangely coherent in its extreme variation. We hope that it turns the common question "Why do we need yet another translation?" on its head, asking instead, "How can we hear from more translators?," and "How can previously unheard, or marginalized voices, find space, like this, in the world of Old English Studies?" With this in mind we invite a new generation of readers to try their own hand at translating Beowulf in the workbook space provided opposite this community translation
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/94070/
ER  -