Beowulf authorship debate takes another turn; suggests a single author
Hwæt!* This week, the all-action, Grendel-battlin’, sea-voyagin’, crown-of-Geatland-wearin’ hero Beowulf was the subject of renewed debate. Authorship of the Scandinavian epic poem, which dates from between 1,200 and 1,300 years ago,… Read more »
Should J.R.R Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf be published?
Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien might know that his 1926 prose translation of Beowulf will be published by HarperCollins this week. They may also know that, in a letter to a… Read more »
Tweeting Beowulf
Welsh medievalist Elaine Treharne describes her blog, Text Technologies, as “Thoughts on the textual and literary, & on text technologies from Babylonian cuneiform to Twitter, with an eye on the… Read more »
Did everyone get the first line of Beowulf wrong.. or did Seamus Heaney get it right?
UPDATE: Dr. George Walkden responds below. Earlier this week, The Independent reported that the first line of Beowulf has been incorrectly translated for hundreds of years. According to research by… Read more »
Grendel was a Tyrannosaurus Rex, claims the world’s coolest literary critic
The signal internet-driven joy of recent decades—other than the Hamster Dance (never forget)—is in discovering previously unsuspected veins of enthusiasm and rage into which some portion of humanity has been… Read more »
Eating your way through the classics with Fictitious Dishes
This week Melville House celebrates the latest release in our series of Pepe Carvalho mysteries from Spanish author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In Off Side, the pressure is on Carvalho to find… Read more »