[King Alfred Tr. this work into Anglo-Saxon.]
COMPLETE WORKS OF BEDE. Tr. by J. A. Giles, 12 v. 1843-44. v. 1: Letters, etc. v. 2-3, Historia Ecclesiastica. v. 4, Historical Tracts. v. 5, Homilies. v. 6, Scientific Tracts. v. 7-12, Commentaries on Scriptures.
BENYOVSZKY, MAURICE A. b. 1741, d. 1786. Hungarian writer.
MEMOIRS AND TRAVELS.... 2 v. Tr. [W. Nicholson] 1789.
BEOWULF.
A semi-fabulous hero of Denmark, who forms the subject of a celebrated epic poem in West Saxon supposed to have been written in the ninth century.
THE POEM OF BEOWULF. Tr. by J. M. Kemble, 1837.
The MS. is in the Cottonian Library in the British Museum (Codex Vitellius, A. xv.). Grímr Jónsson Thorkelin, an Icelandic scholar, had two copies made of it in 1815. Through this edition the poem became known in England, Germany and Denmark, but Sharon Turner gave the first account of it in 1805. In 1833 (2nd edition, 1835) J. M. Kemble issued a complete edition of the text of Beowulf, and in 1837 translated the whole of it into English.
BERANGER, PIERRE JEAN DE. b. 1780, d. 1857. French lyric poet.