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Many editions of Beowulf exist, including online editions. This category lists online editions and transcriptions of the original text.

Resources in This Category

• Beowulf in Hypertext

  http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~beowulf
  Contains both the original Old English text and a modern translation, with the ability to jump to any section of the original or the translation. Also provides considerable background material.

• Beowulf on Steorarume (Beowulf in Cyberspace)

  http://www.heorot.dk/
  Benjamin Slade's critical edition of Beowulf, together with a facing-page translation, explanatory notes, glossary, supplemental texts and translations, background material, and links.

• Beowulf: ASPR Edition

  http://catterall.net/OE/texts/a4.1.html
  Complete Old English text as it appears in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records.

• Beowulf: Glossed Text

  http://homepages.ucalgary.ca/~mmcgilli/ASPR/Beowfram.htm
  Each word of the Old English text is linked to a corresponding glossary definition.

• Beowulf: Harrison-Sharp Edition

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9700
  An edition of Beowulf and the Battle of Finnsburh by James Harrison and Robert Sharp. Published 1883. Includes complete Old English text, extensive textual notes, list of names occurring in the poem, and glossary. Project Gutenberg ebook. Available in various formats. Download, print, or read online.

• Beowulf: Klaeber edition

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/beowulf-oe.asp
  Complete text of Beowulf as it appears in the Friedrich Klaeber edition. From the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.

• Beowulf: the Grendel Episode

  http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/engl403/beoframe.html
  Old English text of lines 702-897, with words hot-linked to glossary.

• Electronic Beowulf

  http://ebeowulf.uky.edu/ebeo4.0/start.html
  An edition by Kevin Kiernan. An image of each folio and an edited version of the lines contained in the folio appear in parallel frames.

 

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