Ok, as it is my first post ,and I am going to ask a lot from you all, I will try to introduce myself. I’m a young guy under siege in a hot south american country called Brazil. Here in my bunker I try to escape from this hideous event called carnival (ugh!) and thanks god I can hear no samba from my new home. Meanwhile I study languages by myself; I’m actually reading The Metamorphoses of Ovid in latin, loeb edition. I managed to study Anglo-saxon also (with Mitchell and Robinson’s Guide)and I’m now reading Beowulf. Well, thats REAL fun! I’m starting also Pharr’s homeric greek. My other interests beside languages and literature are progressive metal bands and classic composers. Thats it. And the site is great too I was forgeting to say! Scyld Scefing
Hi, Welcome.
I’m also a fan of Beowulf, but I could not start learning A-S right now.
I’m focusing on learning Homeric Greek with Pharr, in a study group here in textkit. It helps very much, for otherwise I cannot carve out regular study time from my always-busy and mind-disturbing work hours.
Please check out Perseus beta site: http://test.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/index.jsp Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Materials
I got a Beowulf audio CD read by Trevor Eaton. It’s good and though I’m not good at A-S, the pronunciation fits the explanations in the grammar book. If you are going to help jeff running textkit, you could buy one through textkit shop:
http://www.textkit.com/0_B000000WWQ.html
Hi mingshey
yeah, I’m pretty excited with this new perseus, because my edition of beowulf doesn’t have any notes and they are so useful!! I used perseus for latin and it helped a lot. Well, thanks and hope we have a good time learning greek!
In case you have not visited the Liberty Fund site yet, I was looking for the post in which somebody had introduced this site : http://oll.libertyfund.org/ , but I couldn’t find the original post. It must be in the “Outside Links of Interest” board.
In this site you click the “TITLES” tab from the leftmost “Search Catergories” list, and select “All Book Titles(by author, or by date)”, and search for Beowulf among the list, and you can find a Beowulf PDF. No translation, but some notes and a glossary, etc.
The Liberty Fund site also has some valuable English Literatures, too. And many a translations from the classical works.
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In this site you click the “TITLES” tab from the leftmost “Search Catergories” list, and select “All Book Titles(by author, or by date)”, and search for Beowulf among the list, and you can find a Beowulf PDF. No translation, but some notes and a glossary, etc.
That’s really interesting, specially the glossary. I would like some notes but I will print this one even so. Thanks!
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Thanks Mariek! And I loved your motto, really nice sentence!
Who wrote it?