Title: Beowulf Title Record # 1785845
Author: uncredited
Date: 1000-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Series: Beowulf editions and translations of the original text
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN, YouTube
Language: Old English User Rating: 9.50 (2 votes) Including variants and translations: 7.67 (3 votes) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
Current Tags: epic fantasy (2), monsters (1), dragons (1), into-movie (1), into-music (1), into-video game (1), into-tv (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations

Year Language Title 1815ⓘWritten between the 8th and 11th century but the first book publication was in 1815. Translated by an uncredited hand English Beowulf 1895 English The Tale of Beowulf [as by William Morris and A. J. Wyatt] 1904ⓘProse translation. Translated by Clarence Griffin Child English Beowulf 1911ⓘTranslated by Clark Hall of the uncredited Old English poem into Prose. Editions revised by other hands were published in 1940 and 1950. English Beowulf [as by John R. Clark Hall] 1957ⓘProse translation. Translated by David Wright(translator) English Beowulf 1963ⓘAuthor unknown. The exact date of the appearance of the first known manuscript of "Beowulf" is unknown. Estimates range from 975 AD to 1025 AD. Translated by Burton Raffel English Beowulf 1973ⓘTranslated by Michael Alexander (translator) in verse. English Beowulf 1991ⓘTranslated by Frederick Rebsamen "A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1991 by HarperCollins Publishers." English Beowulf: An Updated Verse Translation 1999ⓘTranslated by Seamus Heaney Heaney's modern English translation of the medieval poem by an unknown Anglo-Saxon author, originally in Old English. English Beowulf [as by Seamus Heaney] 2007ⓘTranslated by John McNamara English Beowulf: A New Translation with an Introduction and Notes 2007ⓘTranslated by André Crépin, appearing opposite the original Old English text. French Beowulf 2010ⓘTranslated by A. M. Francavilla Italian Le imprese di Beowulf [as by John Earle] 2011ⓘTranslated by Francis B. Gummere English Beowulf 2014ⓘTranslated by J. R. R. Tolkien English Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary [as by J. R. R. Tolkien] 2020ⓘTranslated by Maria Dahvana Headley A new, feminist translation in verse. English Beowulf

Awards

Place	Year and Award	Category
Nomination (as Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary)	2015 Mythopoeic	Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (for Inkling Studies)
Nomination (as Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary)	2016 Mythopoeic	Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (for Inkling Studies)
Nomination (as Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary)	2017 Mythopoeic	Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (for Inkling Studies)
1	2021 Hugo	Best Related Work
3	2021 Locus	Best Horror Novel
Nomination	2021 World Fantasy	Special Award, Professional

Publications

Not displaying translations • Display all variants and translations • Do not display variants or translations

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
Beowulf: A Glossed Text	1995-00-00	uncredited	Penguin Books (Penguin Classics)			xxvi+ 237	tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	novel
Beowulf	2007-11-00	uncredited	Le Livre de Poche (Le Livre de Poche - Lettres gothiques #4575)	978-2-253-08243-9	€6.95?€: Euro	254	pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	omni

View all covers for Beowulf (logged in users can change User Preferences to always display covers on this page)

Reviews

• Review [English] by Glen Engel-Cox (1993) in First Impressions: Dancing About Literature Since 1986, (2021)
• Review [English] by Glen Engel-Cox [as by Glen E. Cox] (1993) in First Impressions, Installment Two
• Review [English] by Jonathon Sullivan (2007) in Escape Pod, EP Review: Beowulf, Grendel, and Beowulf
• Review [English] by Adam Roberts (2014) in Strange Horizons, 7 July 2014
• Review [English] by Adam Roberts (2015) in Rave and Let Die: The SF and Fantasy of 2014
• Review [English] by Henry Eliot (2018) in The Penguin Classics Book
• Review [English] by Ruth Franklin (2020) in The New Yorker, August 31, 2020
• Review [English] by Danielle Trussoni (2020) in The New York Times Book Review, October 25, 2020