Roy Liuzza is an American scholar of Old English literature. A professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Liuzza is the former editor of the Old English Newsletter. He has published a translation of Beowulf which was well-received[1] and praised for its readability and correspondence with the original,[2] besides scholarly monographs and articles, including many on translating and dating Beowulf.[3][4]

Grendel reaches Heorot: Beowulf 710–714
Old English verseLiuzza's prose
Ðá cóm of móre     under misthleoþum    Then from the moor, in a blanket of mist,
Grendel gongan·     godes yrre bær·    Grendel came stalking — he bore God's anger;
mynte se mánscaða     manna cynnes    the evil marauder meant to ensnare[lower-alpha 1]
sumne besyrwan     in sele þám héan·    some of human-kind in that high hall.

Notes

  1. ↑ The translation of the second half of this line and the first half of the next exchanges their order.

References

  1. ↑ Magennis, Hugh (2011). The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Cambridge UP. p. 192. ISBN 9780521519472.
  2. ↑ Chickering, Howell (2002). "Beowulf and 'Heaneywulf'". The Kenyon Review. 24 (1): 160–78. JSTOR 4338314.
  3. ↑ Trilling, Renée Rebecca (2009). The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Old English Verse. U of Toronto P. p. 9. ISBN 9780802099716.
  4. ↑ Foot, Sarah (2011). AEthelstan. Yale UP. p. 1. ISBN 9780300160376.
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