Beowulf by All, Community Translation and Workbook

Year

2021

Publisher

Arc Humanities Press

Language

English

ISBN

978-1-64189-470-8

Link

Last Update

19-Jan-2026

Keywords

Language & Literature ; British Studies ; European Studies ; Folklore

Description

HE OLD ENGLISH poem known as Beowulf was committed to writing in around the year 1010, somewhere in southern England. It has no title in the manuscript, and existed, unnoticed, until the early modern period. No one knows who wrote it, and no one knows when it was composed, though it is certainly earlier than the manuscript in which it is extant, since errors of copying are apparent in that text. It may have circulated as part of the oral tradition, spoken aloud to multiple audiences in, potentially, many variant forms. It has been assumed throughout the scholarly tradition that...