The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

[2.] The Old English reads:—

Men ne cunnon

secgan tō sōðe, sele-rǣdende

hæleð under heofenum, hwā þǣm hlæste onfēng. —Lines 50–52.

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[ GIBB’S PARAPHRASE]

*Gudrun and other Stories, from the Epics of the Middle Ages, by John Gibb. M. Japp & Company: London: Edinburgh (printed), 1881.

Gudrun, Beowulf, and Roland, with other mediaeval tales by John Gibb, with twenty illustrations. Second edition. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1884 (1883).

8^o, Beowulf, pp. 135–168, with three illustrations[1].

A Paraphrase in English Prose.