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A great many modern English translations of Beowulf exist, including online translations. This category lists online translations.

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• Beowulf: a New Translation for Oral Delivery

  http://digicoll-dev.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Literature/Literature-idx?id=Literature.RinglBeowulf
  Modern English translation by Dick Ringler, intended to be read out loud. Includes sound files for each section of the poem, a search engine, and considerable background material.

• Beowulf: a Searchable Verson

  http://www.online-literature.com/anonymous/beowulf/
  Searchable online version of the Gummere translation.

• Beowulf: a Translation in Free Verse

  http://www.lnstar.com/beowulf/index.html
  A modern adaptation by David Breeden.

• Beowulf: an Interlinear Translation

  http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poems/beowulf
  Each line of the Old English text is interleaved with a corresponding line from Francis B Gummere's modern English translation

• Beowulf: Child Translation

  http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Beowulf_Child.pdf
  Translation by Clarence Griffin Child.

• Beowulf: Comparison of Translations

  http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson814/beowulf_trans.pdf
  Presents the Old English text of lines 710-736 (the coming of Grendel), together with twelve different Modern English translations of these lines, dating from 1921 to 2000.

• Beowulf: Gummere Translation

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/beowulf.asp
  Translation by Francis B. Gummere. From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.

• Beowulf: Hall Translation

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16328
  Modern English translation by J. Lesslie Hall. Project Gutenberg eBook

• BeowulfTranslations.net

  http://www.paddletrips.net/beowulf/
  Shows how each of five excerpts from the poem has been translated in over 100 translations.

 

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