II.
_Mr. S. H. Church’s ‘Beowulf.’_
Beowulf, a Poem by Samuel Harden Church. New York: Stokes and Co., 1901.
An original poem, using some of the Beowulf material.
After speaking of his original intention of translating the _Beowulf_, which he later discarded, the author says:--
‘I have ... composed an original narrative in which the leading characters and some of the incidents of the early work[1] have been freely used, but as materials only. I have transferred to my hero, Beowulf, the picturesque history of Sceaf[2]; have changed the relationship of characters and incidents; have inserted the illumination of Beowulf’s soul, and his banishment; and have introduced the love motive between Beowulf and Freaware that runs through the poem to the end. Indeed the structure, language, style, description, elaboration, interpretation, and development of the story are new. I have arbitrarily laid the scene in England, under purely idealized conditions; and have initiated nearly all that the poem contains of womanhood, of love, of religion, of state-policy, and of domestic life and manners. It is clear, therefore, that my work must not be judged either as a translation, version, or paraphrase of the old Beowulf.’
[Footnote 1: i.e., the translation.]
[Footnote 2: Scyld]
INDEX OF TRANSLATORS
Arnold, Thomas, 71-4. Botkine, L., 75-9. ten Brink, B., and Kennedy, H. M., 146. Brooke, S. A., 135-7. Brown, Anna R., 146. Church, A. J., 141-3. Conybeare, J. J., 28-32. Cox and Jones, _see_ Jones. Dahn, T., 132-4. Earle, John, 91-5. Ettmüller, L., 37-41. Garnett, J. M., 83-7. Gibb, J., 128-30. Grein, C. W. M., 55-9. Grion, G., 87-9. Grundtvig, N. F. S., 22-8. Gummere, F. B., 146. Hall, John Lesslie, 95-9. Hall, John R. Clark, 114-8. Heyne, M., 63-7. Hoffmann, P., 99-103. Jones, E. H., 123-5. Kemble, J. M., 33-7. Kennedy, H. M., _see_ ten Brink. Lemcke, Carl von, _see_ Manno. Leo, H., 121-3. Longfellow, H. W., 146. Lumsden, H. W., 79-82. MacDowall, M. W., 130-2. Morley, H., 146. Morris, W., 104-9. Palmer, B., 147. Ragozin, Z. A., 138-40. Robinson, W. C., 146. Sandras, G. S., 123. Schaldemose, F., 41-5. Simons, L., 109-11. Simrock, K., 59-63. Smith, C. S., 146. Steineck, H., 112-4. Sweet, H., 147. Thomson, C., 143-5. Thorkelin, G. J., 15-21. Thorpe, B., 49-55. Tinker, C. B., 118-20. Tolman, A. H., 147. Turner, S., 9-15. Wackerbarth, A. D., 45-9. Wägner, W., 130-2. Wickberg, R., 90, 91. von Wolzogen, H., 68-71. Wyatt, A. J., 104-9. Zinsser, G., 126-8.
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ERRATA (noted by transcriber):
The word “invisible” means that there is an appropriately sized gap, but the character itself is not present.
In German texts, the word or word element “wohl” is consistently spelled “wol”. Other variant spellings are not noted.
Translations marked with a bracketed asterisk [*] were checked against the original texts.
THORKELIN Dr J V. [_periods printed as shown_] (Criticism) ... swæsne · ᛟ · (i.e. ēðel). [_“edhel” is the name of the runic letter; second period in “i.e.” invisible_]
GRUNDTVIG Bjowulf’s Draape [Drape] Bjovulvs-Draapen, et Høinordisk Heltedigt [Drapen ... Hoinordisk]
ETTMÜLLER[*] (Theory) nach dem gewonnenen Schema [gewonnen] (Extract) bei Headhoræmes [Headoræmes]
SCHALDEMOSE Beo-wulf og Scopes Widsið [_letter ð printed as d with bar_]
SIMROCK[*] (Nature) der Schönheit des Gedichts [Gedichtes] (Extract) In diesem Mittelkreiss [Mittelkreis] da besiegt’ er dich im Schwimmen. [_letter “i” in “Schwimmen” invisible_]
HEYNE[*] (Aim) nicht die erste, die ich biete [_“ich” emphatic (gesperrt) in Heyne original_] (Nature) allitterierende Versmass [alliterierende] fünffüssige Jamben [Iamben] (Extract) mit verwegnem Brüsten [verwegnen] Da schwammt ihr hinaus in See [_shown as printed_] das hatte Beanstans Sohn [_text corrects misspelled “Banstan” in Heyne original_]
ARNOLD (Criticism) nothing more than a transcription [mroe]
GARNETT (Nature) ... ‘In respect to the rhythmical form [_open quote invisible_]
GRION [_All apostrophes are spaced as in the original_] (Preliminary) e sì che nessuna parola [si che]
J. L. HALL (Criticism) ... a gain has here and there been made. [_close quote missing_] ’the’ or ‘a’ in the verses quoted above [_open quote in “the” invisible_]
SIMONS[*] Leeraar aan ’t koninklijk Athenaeum [aan’t] (Aim and Contents) Geschiednis [Geschiedenis] (Extract) Gij maat de zeebaan [zeebahn]
J. R. C. HALL (Nature) without the translation (p. 7). [_closing parenthesis invisible_] (Criticism) ‘... the Weder-Geat Lord’s life.’ [_close quote missing_]
WÄGNER-MACDOWALL Adapted from the Work of Dr. W. Wägner by M. W. MacDowall [W. M.]
RAGOZIN _The Story of Vedic India_. [_extraneous close quote at end of sentence_]