Beowulf

Versions of Beowulf

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Versions of Beowulf include:

Versions in Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

• Beowulf (Zupitza), Autotypes (facsmilies) of the MS, with transliteration and notes by Julius Zupitza (1882). (External scan)
• Beowulf (Harrison and Sharp), edited by James A. Harrison and Robert Sharp (1883); based on Moritz Heyne’s fourth edition of 1879; but without Heyne’s (German) notes. (External scan)
• Beowulf (Wyatt), edited by A. J. Wyatt (1894); based on Zupitza’s autotypes. (transcription project)

Translations into modern English

• Beowulf (Wackerbarth), translated by A. Diedrich Wackerbarth (1849) (External scan)
• Beowulf (Hall), translated by Lesslie Hall (1892), based on the Heyne-Socin text. (Project Gutenberg text)
• The Tale of Beowulf, translated by William Morris and A. J. Wyatt (1895); with classical rhyme-pattern. (Project Gutenberg text)
• Beowulf translated by Francis B. Gummere (1909) (Chapter 1 of The Oldest English Epic; maintaining the Anglo-Saxon metre and rhyme-pattern. (transcription project) )