The Beowulf comes out in Translated by Tolkien

Almost 90 years after John Ronald Ruel Tolkien translated the Anglo -Saxon epic poem Beowulf, his translation is published.

According to The Guardian , Beowulf in Tolkien’s translation was prepared by his son Christopher for printing.

The only manuscript of Beowulfa dates from the beginning of the XI century and is stored in the British library (a year ago it was digitized and published on its website).

The poem was translated into dozens of languages ​​of the world, the first full translation was made at the beginning of the 19th century. Among the numerous translations of the poem to modern English, translations of William Morris (1895) and Sheimas Khini (1999), awarded the Whitredovsky Prize for him.

Professor of Oxford University John Ronald Ruel Tolkien was one of the largest researchers of Beowulf in the 20th century. He said that “Beowulf” “is filled with a story that goes into the dark depths of centuries, not subject to oral tradition, but accessible to imagination.” Tolkien called the poem "Gloomy, tragic, sinister, surprisingly realistic."

John Ronald Ruel Tolkien finished the translation of Beowulf in 1926, but was not going to publish it. This was said by Christopher Tolkien on Wednesday, March 19, announcing the signing of the contract of heirs of the writer with the Harpercollins Publishing House.

The book "Beowulf". Translation and comments ”is released on May 22. In addition to the translation of the poem, Tolkien’s lectures on Beowulf, which he read in Oxford in the 1930s, and also previously published before the fairy tale, “Selling Spell” based on the Scandinavian saga about King Krakka (it is mentioned in Beovulf as the enemy of King Khrodgar) will include.