Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Introduction: From Eald to New 1
6. 1 From Eald Old to New Old: Translating Old English Poetry in(to) the Twenty-first Century 13
7. 2 Edwin Morgan’s Translations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry: Turning Eald into New in English and Scots 29
8. 3 Gains and Losses in Translating Old English Poetry into Modern English and Russian 46
9. 4 Borges, Old English Poetry and Translation Studies 61
10. 5 ‘Let Beowulf now be a book from Ireland’: What Would Henryson or Tolkien Say? 75
11. 6 The Forms and Functions of Medieval Irish Poetry and the Limitations of Modern Aesthetics 92
12. 7 Aislinge Meic Conglinne: Challenges for Translator and Audience 109
13. 8 Translating Find and the Phantoms into Modern Irish 122
14. 9 Reawakening Angantýr: English Translations of an Old Norse Poem from the Eighteenth Century to the Twenty-first 148
15. 10 Translating and Retranslating the Poetic Edda 165
16. 11 From Heroic Lay to Victorian Novel: Old Norse Poetry about Brynhildr and Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native 183
17. 12 Michael Hirst’s Vikings and Old Norse Poetry 199
18. Afterword 213
19. A Translation of Riddle 15 from the Exeter Book 217
20. Bibliography 218
21. Index 234