{"id":5,"date":"2014-07-11T21:12:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T21:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegrinnellbeowulf.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2015-07-09T15:43:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T15:43:27","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grinnell Beowulf editions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grinnell Beowulf is a translation and teaching edition of the Old English poem. Six students at <a title=\"Grinnell College\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grinnell.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grinnell College<\/a>\u2014Eva Dawson, Emily Johnson, Jeanette Miller, Logan Shearer, Aniela Wendt, and Kate Whitman, all &#8217;14\u2014worked with Tim Arner, Associate Professor of English, to translate Beowulf into readable and poetic modern English. What started as a Mentored Advanced Project became an extended collaboration that resulted in the production of an edition designed for both first-time readers and advanced students. The Grinnell Beowulf includes over 165 annotations that accompany the text, as well as introductions to the poem and the translation process.<\/p>\n<p>Beowulf is the most celebrated poem of the Anglo-Saxon era. It tells the story of a mighty warrior who defends his friends and homeland from lethal threats both human and monstrous. Beowulf\u2019s battles with Grendel, Grendel\u2019s mother, and an angry dragon are interwoven with scenes of feasts and feuds that provide a view of Scandinavian cultural practices and historical traditions. Though the poem had been absent from the English literary tradition for centuries, Beowulf has become a canonical text in high school and college English courses, thanks in part to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beowulf:_The_Monsters_and_the_Critics\" target=\"_blank\">J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s study of the poem<\/a> and his use of it as a source for <em>The Hobbit<\/em> and <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em> trilogy<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in ordering print copies for use in a course, email arnertim@grinnell.edu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.grinnell.edu\/islandora\/object\/grinnell%3A5317#page\/1\/mode\/2up\" target=\"_blank\">The Grinnell Beowulf in Digital Grinnell <\/a>&#8212; a digital edition of the text that can be downloaded as a .pdf for free. This edition is part of <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.grinnell.edu\/drupal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Grinnell<\/a>, a repository for student work and information about Grinnell College.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Grinnell Beowulf audio files\" href=\"https:\/\/digital.grinnell.edu\/islandora\/object\/grinnell:5593\" target=\"_blank\">The Grinnell Beowulf audio files<\/a> &#8212; Seven audio files of the translators reading The Grinnell Beowulf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegrinnellbeowulf.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/2012-07-31-14-10-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-35 \" src=\"https:\/\/thegrinnellbeowulf.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/2012-07-31-14-10-02.jpg?w=625\" alt=\"2012-07-31 14.10.02\" width=\"566\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2012-07-31-14-10-02.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2012-07-31-14-10-02-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2012-07-31-14-10-02-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The Grinnell Beowulf<\/em> team hard at work, July 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grinnell Beowulf is a translation and teaching edition of the Old English poem. Six students at Grinnell College\u2014Eva Dawson, Emily Johnson, Jeanette Miller, Logan Shearer, Aniela Wendt, and Kate Whitman, all &#8217;14\u2014worked with Tim Arner, Associate Professor of English, to translate Beowulf into readable and poetic modern English. What started as a Mentored Advanced&hellip; <span class=\"kuorinka-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/about-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Grinnell Beowulf editions<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timarner.sites.grinnell.edu\/beowulf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}