Roy Liuzza

Roy Liuzza is an American scholar of Old English literature. A professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Liuzza is the former editor of the Old English Newsletter. He has published a translation of Beowulf which was well-received^[1] and praised for its readability and correspondence with the original,^[2] besides scholarly monographs and articles, including many on translating and dating Beowulf.^[3]^[4]

**Grendel reaches Heorot: *Beowulf* 710–714**
Old English verse	Liuzza's prose
Ðá cóm of móre under misthleoþum	Then from the moor, in a blanket of mist,
Grendel gongan· godes yrre bær·	Grendel came stalking — he bore God's anger;
mynte se mánscaða manna cynnes	the evil marauder meant to ensnare^[a]
sumne besyrwan in sele þám héan·	some of human-kind in that high hall.

Notes

^ The translation of the second half of this line and the first half of the next exchanges their order.

References

^ Magennis, Hugh (2011). The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Cambridge UP. p. 192. ISBN 9780521519472.
^ Chickering, Howell (2002). "Beowulf and 'Heaneywulf'". The Kenyon Review. 24 (1): 160–78. JSTOR 4338314.
^ Trilling, Renée Rebecca (2009). The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Old English Verse. U of Toronto P. p. 9. ISBN 9780802099716.
^ Foot, Sarah (2011). AEthelstan. Yale UP. p. 1. ISBN 9780300160376.

External links

Faculty page at University of Tennessee

[5] The translation of the second half of this line and the first half of the next exchanges their order.

[1] Magennis, Hugh (2011). The Cambridge Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature. Cambridge UP. p. 192. ISBN 9780521519472.

[2] Chickering, Howell (2002). "Beowulf and 'Heaneywulf'". The Kenyon Review. 24 (1): 160–78. JSTOR 4338314.

[3] Trilling, Renée Rebecca (2009). The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: Historical Representation in Old English Verse. U of Toronto P. p. 9. ISBN 9780802099716.

[4] Foot, Sarah (2011). AEthelstan. Yale UP. p. 1. ISBN 9780300160376.

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v t e Beowulf
Old English Alliterative verse Kenning
Clans (characters)	Geats Beowulf Heardred Hygd Hygelac Hundings Scyldings Æschere Healfdene Heorogar Hrothgar Unferth Scylfings Eadgils Eanmund Ohthere Onela Ongentheow Waegmundings Ecgþeow Weohstan Wiglaf Wulfings Wealhtheow Monsters Grendel Grendel's mother The Dragon
Translating Beowulf	List of translations Seamus Heaney Beowulf: A New Verse Translation J. R. R. Tolkien Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" Beowulf and the Critics "On Translating Beowulf" "Sellic Spell" Finn and Hengest
Scholars	Nora K. Chadwick Michael D. C. Drout Robert D. Fulk Kevin Kiernan Leonard Neidorf John D. Niles Geoffrey Russom Tom Shippey
Related	Adaptations Anglo-Saxon paganism Battle of Finnsburg Beowulf and Middle-Earth Heorot Hrunting Nægling Nowell Codex

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