More Breaking News: Anglo-Saxon Hospital Discovered!

This find dates to the same period as the Beowulf manuscript. It will change how we see Anglo-Saxon culture - and it's a reminder of how civilized the Anglo-Saxons were. It wasn't all mead-halls, flyting and fighting!

Seamus Heaney's Beowulf - The Prologue

Here's a link to Seamus Heaney (winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1995) reading his translation of the prologue of Beowulf. This might help you with reading the prologue for the class.

You might also find this website useful. It gives the original Old English text (don't worry about this!) with a modern verse translation that keeps the caesuras (the breaks between the first and second parts of each line). It also has very helpful notes - click on the links and they will appear in a new window. You can also listen to a reading of selections of the original Old English, if you like!