Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Moncrieff, Charles Scott) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Widsith, Beowulf, Finnsburgh, Waldere, Deor: Done Into Common English After the Old Manner, With an Introd, by Viscount Northcliffe It is characteristic of the modesty of the English people that our oldest epic, or, rather, the one Old English epic that has survived, should contain not a word about England. Indeed, the greater part of its story takes place in the country of the Danes, who had been England´s most cruel and destructive enemies for some two centuries before the existing manuscript of Beowulf was written. So, too, in a later age, when our drama came to be written, pride of place was given to, and has since been held by, the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. But the preservation of Beowulf as an English epic is justified by the embodiment in its hero of many traits of character which we are still proud to recognise among our fellow-countrymen. Higher criticism may reduce Grendel and his mother to the symbolical dimensions of epidemics, due to an over-populated settlement on the marshy and misty shore of a tideless sea; but the courage of the young captain and his small company, facing unknown perils in a foreign country, and the renewed courage of the veteran, after more than a generation of peaceful government, arming himself to fight and die alone in the defence of his people, are facts with which, happily, we are still familiar. How many thousand Beowulfs have we not sent out in the last seven years from these islands to face subtleties of horror as incredible as Grendel, fire as scathing as the Worm´s, sea-monsters against which no armament was proof? Some have come back in triumph; others, like Hondscio and Aeschere, have fallen, mangled and murdered, whose fame is preserved only in memory for so long as their friends survive them. 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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