The first three parts of Guthlac A are posted, and the notes sections is struggling along behind it. I feel that I am starting to get a feel for the poem's unique qualities: its heavily periodic structure that depends on very dense repetition, its unusual meter (Sievers types don't really help very much in many of the lines), and the poem's obsession with state and condition (as evidenced by the constant use of had, and the frequent use of legal terminology).
I hope you are enjoying the evolution of the translation as much as I am.
On another note, ASNPP just broke a minor landmark today. The page has had 1,005 hits, with 756 unique visitors. I still have a long way to go to catch up with In The Middle, and the guinea pig cartoon page has still had 8 times as many hits, but I am very proud this project has received so much interest. Thank you all!
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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.
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- 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.
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3 comments:
Thank YOU. I don't comment here that much because I don't in all honesty have the time I would like to think about translation these days, but I very much appreciate that you offer -- so generously -- your work. The Guthlac translation has been especially fun for me to read.
Thank you, Jeffrey, for your encouragement in getting all this off the ground!
CONGRATS [sound of champagne cork popping]!
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