Roy Liuzza

Roy Liuzza is an American scholar of Old English literature. A professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Liuzza is the former editor of the Old English Newsletter. He has published a translation of Beowulf which was well-received^[1] and praised for its readability and correspondence with the original,^[2] besides scholarly monographs and articles, including many on translating and dating Beowulf.^[3][4]

Grendel reaches Heorot: Beowulf 710–714

Old English verse	Liuzza's prose
Ðá cóm of móre     under misthleoþum	Then from the moor, in a blanket of mist,
Grendel gongan·     godes yrre bær·	Grendel came stalking — he bore God's anger;
mynte se mánscaða     manna cynnes	the evil marauder meant to ensnare[a]
sumne besyrwan     in sele þám héan·	some of human-kind in that high hall.

Notes

1. The translation of the second half of this line and the first half of the next exchanges their order.