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'''''Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment''''' (later impressions have ''Finnesburg'') is a Modern English edition of the [[Old English]] poems ''[[Beowulf]]'' and the ''[[Wikipedia:Finnesburg Fragment|Finnesburg Fragment]]''. [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] contributed with the section "Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of 'Beowulf'" (pp. vii-xli). | '''''Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment''''' (later impressions have ''Finnesburg'') is a Modern English edition of the [[Old English]] poems ''[[Beowulf (poem)|Beowulf]]'' and the ''[[Wikipedia:Finnesburg Fragment|Finnesburg Fragment]]''. [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] contributed with the section "Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of 'Beowulf'" (pp. vii-xli). | ||
The first edition of the translation was published in [[1911]]. Later printings counted the 1940 edition as the second impression. Wrenn and Tolkien's contributions were not included until [[1940]]. | The first edition of the translation was published in [[1911]]. Later printings counted the 1940 edition as the second impression. Wrenn and Tolkien's contributions were not included until [[1940]]. | ||
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| Author | Translation by John R. Clark Hall; Notes and Introduction by C.L. Wrenn; Prefatory Remarks by J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Publisher | London: George Allen & Unwin |
| Released | Revised Edition 16 July 1940 |
| Format | Hardback in dustwrapper |
| ISBN | N/A |
Beowulf and the Finnsburg Fragment (later impressions have Finnesburg) is a Modern English edition of the Old English poems Beowulf and the Finnesburg Fragment. J.R.R. Tolkien contributed with the section "Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of 'Beowulf'" (pp. vii-xli).
The first edition of the translation was published in 1911. Later printings counted the 1940 edition as the second impression. Wrenn and Tolkien's contributions were not included until 1940.
Tolkien's essay was reprinted in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays as "On Translating Beowulf".[1]
References
- ↑ An Illustrated Tolkien Bibliography, at Tolkienbooks.net
