Readings in Old and Middle English
MIT 21L.705 Major Authors: Old English and Beowulf, Spring 2014 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/21L-705S14 Instructor: Arthur Bahr MIT ...
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My name is Arthur Bahr. I'm an associate professor of Literature at MIT. I am a medievalist and I am going to read the first twelve lines of "Beowulf" in Old English. HWÆT, WE GAR-DEna in geardagum, þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon! Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas, syððanærest wearð feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah, oð þæt him æghwylc ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan; þæt wæs god cyning! And I am going to read the first stanza of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" in the original Middle English. SIÞEN þe sege and þe assaut watz sesed at Troye, Þe borȝ brittened and brent to brondeȝ and askez, Þe tulk þa...
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My name is Arthur Bahr. I'm an associate professor of Literature at MIT. I am a medievalist and I am going to read the first twelve lines of "Beowulf" in Old English. HWÆT, WE GAR-DEna in geardagum, þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon! Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum mægþum meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas, syððanærest wearð feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum weorðmyndum þah, oð þæt him æghwylc ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan; þæt wæs god cyning! And I am going to read the first stanza of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" in the original Middle English. SIÞEN þe sege and þe assaut watz sesed at Troye, Þe borȝ brittened and brent to brondeȝ and askez, Þe tulk þa...
