1971: Grendel, The Beowulf story is retold from Grendel's point of view in this novel by John Gardner.

1966: in The Green Man, a novel by Henry Treece, Beowulf is a minor character, who travels with his own bard, who is making the story about him.

1961: As a children's story by Rosemary Sutcliff.

It is historical novel based closely on the poem. In one scene the protagonist attends the celebration in Heorot after Beowulf kills Grendel.Beowulf only appears in this scene, but he has a profound effect on the motivations of the protagonist.

1949 : 'Silverlock' a novel by John Myers Myers.Novels based on Beowulf Novels and short stories Those are listed at List of translations of Beowulf.

The works listed below are novels and other works that take more 'latitude' than pure 'translations'. Metaphrase or turning an author word for word, and line by line, from one language into another paraphrase or translation with latitude, where the author is kept in view by the translator so as never to be lost, but his words are not so strictly followed as his sense, and that, too, is admitted to be amplified but not altered and imitation where the translator – if he has not lost that name – assumes the liberty not only to vary from the words and sense, but to forsake them both as he sees occasion and taking only some general hints from the original, to run division on the ground-work, as he pleases. In the Preface to Ovid's Epistles (1680) Dryden proposed three different types of translation: The poet John Dryden's categories of translation have influenced how scholars discuss variation between translations and adaptations. By 2020, the Beowulf's Afterlives Bibliographic Database listed some 688 translations and other versions of the poem, from Thorkelin's 1787 transcription of the text, and in languages including Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, Ganda, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Serbo-Croat, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Uighur, and Urdu. In 2003, the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies published Marijane Osborn's annotated list of over 300 translations and adaptations, withdrawn in 2019. īeowulf has been adapted many times in verse, in prose, on the stage, and in film. It has risen to national epic status in England. At 3182 lines, it is notable for its length. Its creation dates from between the 8th and the 11th century, the only surviving manuscript dating from circa 1010. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.īeowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

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