Translation by David Breeden, a creative writing professor at Handout with thirteen translations of lines 710-736.Įditions of Beowulf - Check out for links to virtuallyĮvery edition written, even comic and film versions. Worksheet comparing and contrasting four translations. Group Project comparing six translations, with detailed background, instructions, and chart. Just Imagine Story Guide has great activities for our teenagers. Grisly Charles Keeping illustrations mesmerize. Kevin Crossley-Holland’s translation for British youngsters is very accessible. Exerpts - Unknown Text (34 pages) and Glencoe Unit (62 pages) with ancillary materials. YouTube audio version ( Part 1 line 1 and Part 2 line 1492).īurton Raffel ’s translation is more difficult, but my favorite. Seamus Heaney’s translation is particularly accessible, what with only 14 footnotes in the whole text. Ruth Caillouet ’s classic English Journal article, “Everything I Need to Know about Teaching I Learned from Beowulf ”is still a useful and inspiring delight.” My last word on the subject, “You are going to be so pleased that you have been intimate with Beowulf…when we read Grendel in the spring.” Activities below show this work ’s richness. Studying two translations provokes discussion that leads to other translations, and even to the evolution of our language. Listening to Heaney, then reading Burton Raffel, works. (Note: the fire marshall did not appreciate the candles.) The superintendent ’s son had come home, insisting his mother listen to Beowulf, the best story ever. The morning I looked up and saw all three principals, two counselors, and the superintendent of schools sneaking in my classroom, I knew something was afoot. Later that night, the students read Burton Raffel ’s translation on their own, footnotes and all, and complete response journals that will begin our discussion the next day. So, we sit on the floor in the dark, clustered around a massive collection of candles, and listen to Seamus Haney read Beowulf to us.
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