The Christ of Cynewulf, a Poem in Three Parts
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Excerpt from The Christ of Cynewulf, a Poem in Three Parts: The Advent, the Ascension, and the Last Judgment, Translated Into English Prose My purpose in the present translation is so to combine faithfulness with literary quality as to afford reasonable satisfaction to both the specialist and the general student of literature. In my diction I have endeavored to avoid unintelligible archaisms, and have sought after simple idioms, with a preference for words of Germanic origin. All things considered, prose has been adopted as the most satisfactory medium of translation. Verse may be the ideal form, but it requires an ideal translator; and with the exception of Tennyson´s version of The Battle of Brunanburh, and perhaps one or two others, I can think of none that are at all adequate. Nor is prose without its peculiar advantages; in at least one important respect it is superior to verse, since its flexibility offers a more facile medium for reproducing that metrical variety which is one of the principal charms of Old English poetry. Up to the present time there have appeared three complete translation of this poem - Thorpe´s in his edition of the Codex Exoniensis, Gollancz´s in his two editions of the Christ, and Grein´s in his Dichtungen der Angelsachsen. I have made free use of these translations, and am indebted to them for an occasional word or phrase. The line-numbering follows the original, which necessarily causes irregular intervals between the marginal numbers. Square brackets indicate words inserted by the translator for the sake of clearness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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