Beowulf

Beowulf ni tendi mashuhuri ya fasihi ya Kiingereza cha Kale. Kitabu kilichopo hadi sasa kiliandikwa mnamo 975-1025 BK, lakini inawezekana tendi ilitungwa mapema zaidi.

Hadithi zake

Hilo shairi refu la aya 3182 linasimulia habari za kijana Beowulf anayetokea Uswidi pamoja na marafiki 14 kwa kusudi la kumsaidia mfalme wa Denmark Hrodgar. Hrodgar anateswa na Grendel ambaye ni zimwi mbaya anayemeza watu. Beowulf anamshinda Grendel na mama yake na kupokea zawadi nyingi kutoka Hrodgar.

Kuna sehemu ya pili ya shairi ambamo Beowulf mzee ni mfalme mwenyewe. Anapaswa kushindana na joka anayeharibu nchi. Safari hii Beowulf anauawa akitetea nchi yake kwa sababu kati ya wafuasi wake ni mmoja tu anayemsaidia.

Mfano wa lugha yake

Aya	Kiingereza cha Kale	Kiingereza cha Kisasa (karne ya 19)
[1]	Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum,	Lo! We of Spear-Danes in days of yore,
[2]	þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon	of the fame of the kings, have heard
[3]	hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.	How those nobles did great deeds
[4]	Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,	Often Scyld Scefing, from the army of his enemies,
[5]	monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,	from many warriors, took the mead-benches
[6]	egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð	terrified the nobles. After he was first
[7]	feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad	discovered, a foundling, he gained a consolation
[8]	weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,	waxed under the heavens, prospered in glory,
[9]	oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra	until eventually everyone in surrounding tribes,
[10]	ofer hronrade hyran scolde,	over the whale-road, had to obey
[11]	gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!	and yield to him. He was a good king!

Marejeo

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• Carruthers, Leo (2011), "Rewriting Genres: Beowulf as Epic Romance", katika Carruthers, Leo; Chai-Elsholz, Raeleen; Silec, Tatjana (whr.), Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England, New York: Palgrave, ku. 139–155, ISBN 9780230100268
• Chadwick, Nora K. (1959), "The Monsters and Beowulf", katika Clemoes, Peter (mhr.), The Anglo-Saxons: Studies in Some Aspects of Their History, London: Bowes & Bowes, ku. 171–203, OCLC 213750799
• Chance, Jane (1990), "The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother", katika Damico, Helen; Olsen, Alexandra Hennessey (whr.), New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, ku. 248–261.
• Chickering, Howell D. (2002), "Beowulf and 'Heaneywulf': review", The Kenyon Review, new, 24 (1): 160–178.
• Cook, Albert Stanburrough (1926), Beowulfian and Odyssean Voyages, New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Creed, Robert P (1990), Reconstructing the Rhythm of Beowulf, University of Missouri, ISBN 9780826207227.
• Damico, Helen (1984), Beowulf's Wealhtheow and the Valkyrie Tradition, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 9780299095000.
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (2002), Drout, Michael D. C. (mhr.), Beowulf and the Critics, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Greenfield, Stanley (1989), Hero and Exile, London: Hambleton Press.
• "Anthropological and Cultural Approaches to Beowulf", The Heroic Age (5), Summer–Fall 2001{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link).
• Kiernan, Kevin (1996), Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, ISBN 0-472-08412-7.
• Lerer, Seth (Jan 2012), "Dragging the Monster from the Closet: Beowulf and the English Literary Tradition", Ragazine, ilihifadhiwa kwenye nyaraka kutoka chanzo mnamo 2016-11-28, iliwekwa mnamo 2017-02-19{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date auto-translated (link).
• Lord, Albert (1960), The Singer of Tales, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel (1997) [1958]. Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics and other essays. London: Harper Collins. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
• Trask, Richard M (1998), "Preface to the Poems: Beowulf and Judith: Epic Companions", Beowulf and Judith: Two Heroes, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, ku. 11–14.
• Zumthor, Paul (1984), "The Text and the Voice", New Literary History, 16, Englehardt, Marilyn C transl.

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Wikimedia Commons ina media kuhusu:

Beowulf

• Beowulf ePub/Mobi version
• Electronic Beowulf, ed. by Kevin Kiernan, 4th online edn (University of Kentucky/The British Library, 2015), http://ebeowulf.uky.edu/ebeo4.0/start.html
• Beowulf manuscript in The British Library's Online Gallery, with short summary and podcast Ilihifadhiwa 18 Septemba 2010 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• Annotated List of Beowulf Translations: The List — Arizonal Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Ilihifadhiwa 21 Juni 2013 kwenye Wayback Machine.
• online text (digitised from Elliott van Kirk Dobbie (ed.), Beowulf and Judith, Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 4 (New York, 1953))
• Beowulf introduction Article introducing various translations and adaptations of Beowulf
• The tale of Beowulf (Sel.3.231); a digital edition of the proof-sheets with manuscript notes and corrections by William Morris in Cambridge Digital Library

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