I have been negligent in updating lately. My apologies.
The first bit of news is that the Elene translation page is now receiving updates. The first 18 lines are already there. I'm trying to discover the voice of the poem, and get the hang of Cynewulf's style. I absolutely do not want this poem to sound like it was written by the Andreas-poet. Guthlac is also floating around in the mix, and will probably start getting some action as well (page to come).
The second item is the ASF2 panel went really well. I have notes to provide a more fleshed-out account which I will be working on.
And, third, the Andreas translation is receiving frequent edits as I start to hone the language and style. One thing that has been pointed out to me is that there are way too many commas -- so that's being fixed. Also, there are attempts at preserving kennings that need a lot of work to sound interesting, rather than just awkward.
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
61% of the extant poetry and counting...
There's more to Anglo-Saxon narrative poetry than Beowulf,
and it is just as engaging, vital, and important to the classroom and scholar.
However, very little of it has been set into verse translation.
That has changed...
Use the ASNPP in your Class!
If you are teaching and wish to use any of my translations for course readings, please contact me first. I will send you the most up-to-date version, in a file formatted for easy reading and reference. All I ask in return is that you send me comments on how it worked or didn't work or other pedagogical comments that will help me shape and perfect the poems. The ASNPP is here to help out with the mission of exposing Anglo-Saxon poetry to a wider audience, so let me assist you in whatever way I can! Contact me via email if you are interested.
Translated Texts
Enumeratio Institutionum
Enumeratio Blogorum
Labels
- Andreas (11)
- Beowulf (1)
- Christ (33)
- Christ and Satan (11)
- Classroom (1)
- Daniel (10)
- Elene (20)
- Exodus (6)
- Genesis (48)
- Guthlac (12)
- Juliana (12)
- Metres of Boethius (9)
- Other poems (3)
- Phoenix (12)
- poetics and translation (2)
- St. Christopher (1)
- The Ruin (1)
- The Word Exchange (2)
De Re Mihi
- Aaron Hostetter
- Aaron Hostetter is an assistant professor of medieval English at Rutgers University-Camden. His book project, tentatively titled The Matter of Cuisine: Food-ways and Medieval Romance, is a work of literary anthropology tracking the intersection of food practice, political theory, and the romance literature of medieval England, from its earliest iterations in tenth-century hagiographic narratives to their descendants of the fifteenth century, across four centuries of viands and verse, from romances in Anglo-Saxon, to Old French, and then to Middle English.
Followers
3 comments:
Can't wait to hear about London -- I'm so sad I had to miss this year!
Make sure you say really mean things about me, how I was drunk and slurred my words throughout my paper, and things like that. Cheers, Eileen
If you are interested in another Anglo Saxon resource, you should check out this website:
Anglo Saxon wiki browser
Post a Comment