Beowulf--A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

Author:Maria Dahvana Headley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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INTRODUCTION

  1.  This tempting theory is from Raymond Tripp’s “The Dragon King of Beowulf,” published in 2005 in In Geardagum, and also dealt with in More About the Fight with the Dragon (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1983). It’s not unprecedented. In Iceland’s Volsunga Saga, Fafnir starts out a dwarf and ends up becoming a dragon due to cursed gold. Perhaps, for a translator, more pragmatically, shape-shifting the last survivor into the dragon makes sense of difficult pronouns in that section, which create consistent bafflement about which character is being referenced—the dragon, the last survivor, or the thief.

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