‎WRIGHT David‎
‎Beowulf.‎

‎Bjowulfs Drape. Et Gothisk Helte=Digt fra forrige Aar=Tusinde af Angel = Saxisk paa danske Riim ved Nik. Fred. Sev. Grundtvig. - [BEOWULF IN THE FIRST TRANSLATION INTO ANY MODERN LANGUAGE AND THE SECOND APPEARANCE OVERALL]‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, Andreas Seidelin, 1820. 8vo. Lovely contemporary half calf with richly gilt spine. Spine with some rubbing, but still very nice, tight, and completely unrestored. Internally remarkably clean and fresh with only the slightest of occasional brownspotting. Old owner's gift-inscription to front free endpaper dated 1858. Printed on good paper (in Danish the so-called ""writing paper"") and with good margins. An excellent copy. LXXIV, 325 pp.‎

‎The highly important first translation into any modern language - and overall the second edition to appear - of the seminal Gothic tale that is Beowulf. This monumental work appeared merely five years after the first printing of the text (in Latin, 1815) and 13 years before the first English edition of Beowulf. With this edition, Grundtvig founded the study of Beowulf. ""In the British Library there is a manuscript, its edges scorched and brittle, of ""Beowulf"", one of the very earliest poems in English and its first great literary masterpiece. It exists only in this one vellum codex and has survived for a thousand years, telling of an even earlier time, when the heroic age still was remembered by a Christian audience....In 1786, an Icelandic scholar, came to the [British] Museum, looking for documents relating to Denmark, where the first part of ""Beowulf"" takes place. He made two complete copies of the manuscript, the first time this had been done, one by a professional copyist and the other, himself, and returned to Copenhagen to study them.But then calamity. Denmark was occupied during the Napoleonic Wars and, in 1807, the English bombarded Copenhagen... [The] manuscript for an edition of ""Beowulf"", which just had been completed, was destroyed."" The two transcripts were saved, however, work on them was begun again, and in 1815 the first printed edition of ""Beowulf"" appeared, in Latin, printed in Copenhagen.In 1820 the first translation of the seminal poem appeared, that into Danish, translated by the great Danish author Grundtvig, sparking the interest in Beowulf that persists until this day. In 1833, the first English edition of Beowulf appeared.‎

‎Beowulf and Lejre,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Hardback, XIV+495 p., 100 b/w ill. + 48 colour ill., 10 b/w line art, 175 x 255 mm. ISBN 9782503527345.‎

‎On the basis of legendary analogues, specialists in the Old English poem Beowulf have long inferred that the action of the main part of that poem is situated at the village of Gammel Lejre on the island of Zealand, Denmark. Archaeological excavations undertaken from 1986 to 1988 under the direction of Tom Christensen of Roskilde Museum yielded spectacular confirmation of that inference by uncovering the remains of two great halls at Lejre dating from ca. AD 680 to 990, one built on the site of the other. At that time, this discovery had little impact upon Beowulf scholarship, in part because the chief monograph reporting on the excavations was available only in Danish. In 2004?05, however, a new round of excavations revealed that a still earlier hall had once stood elsewhere at Lejre. This hall has been dated to the mid-sixth century, very close to the time when the action of Beowulf is set. The question of the Danish origins of the Beowulf story is thus now highlighted. New.‎

‎Performing the Middle Ages from 'Beowulf' to 'Othello' ,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 Hardback, VIII+344 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503527550.‎

‎Performing the Middle Ages from 'Beowulf' to 'Othello' traces the dialogic nature of the relationship between the Middle Ages and modernity. Arguing that modern beliefs in the alterity of the Middle Ages stem from the Middle Ages- own processes of self-representation, Johnston explores varieties of nostalgia through a wide selection of texts. This volume spans an extensive chronological period with a view to demonstrating how our notions of the medieval have been crucially informed by the past itself. The study is focused on works which stage that popular literary archetype ' the nostalgic figure of the aristocratic warrior ' and argues that it is this image that provides a structural model for so many modern perspectives on the Middle Ages. And yet, in the Middle Ages this model was being deconstructed as it was also being generated. By moving from the self-consciously archaic heroism of Beowulf to the scathing comment on chivalric narrative presented in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale', Johnston's analysis offers an intriguing insight into the way medieval texts engage in a continual aesthetic and ideological critique of their own cultural moment. Using Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative Morte Arthure as examples of an incisive critique of the cult of subjectivity and of a highly self-conscious desire for tradition, Johnston extends his analysis to the early seventeenth century, and explores the ways in which Shakespeare's Othello brilliantly deconstructs the very concept of 'Renaissance Man'. With its interest in issues of subjectivity, textual performance, and the ideological self-awareness of medieval culture, Performing the Middle Ages provides a scholarly and compelling investigation into the Middle Ages' ability both to understand itself and to shape (post)modern notions of the medieval. Languages : English. ‎

‎L'ECRAN FANTASTIQUE - N° 281 - NOVEMBRE 2007 - BEOWULF - IRON MAN - SAW IV - beowulf, waw iv, 50 dead end, la crypte, dead silence, suspiria, la chambre des morts, wind chill, iron man, la boussole d'or, les chroniques de spiderwick...‎

‎FINANCIERE DE LOISIRS. 2007. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 98 pages - nombreuses photos en couleurs dans et hors texte - 1 illustration en couleur en 3D collée sur le 1er plat.. . . . Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues‎

‎LA MAGAZINE DU CINEMA FANTASTIQUE ET DE SCIENCE-FICTION - Sommaire: beowulf, waw iv, 50 dead end, la crypte, dead silence, suspiria, la chambre des morts, wind chill, iron man, la boussole d'or, les chroniques de spiderwick... Classification Dewey : 70.49-Presse illustrée, magazines, revues‎

‎Beowulf. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)‎

‎Beowulf. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Beovulf.. Family Library series. Heroic Hall. St. Petersburg. Vita Nova 2010. 336 p. 25x18 sm. SKUalb631be2978cbd7c9c.‎