Beowulf (trans. J.R.R. Tolkien)
Logos & Lore — July 2024.
Framing
“This work contains J.R.R. Tolkien’s prose translation of Beowulf, together with his notes and commentaries; also the author’s tale entitled Sellic Spell, his version of the same in Old English, and two versions of a poem, The Lay of Beowulf. A prose translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was completed by 1926, when he was thirty-four, and at the time he was elected to the professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford.”1
Footnotes
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The Tolkien Estate, “Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell.” https://www.tolkienestate.com/scholarship/beowulf-a-translation-and-commentary-together-with-sellic-spell/ ↩