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This parallel-text verse rendering of the two poems has been described as 'an attempt to transfer a very old idiom into its nearest modern equivalent'. A succint Introduction deals with the provenance of the texts and essential features: metre, diction, and syntax. Notes and Commentary, an Index of Names, Royal Genealogies, and a Select Bibliography support the text to help readers to follow the intricate relationships that characterised heroic society.

Two of the battle poems (Maldon and Brunanburh) in this revised edition form part of recorded Anglo-Saxon history, whereas the third (Finnsburh) belongs properly to heroic legend, predating the settlement of Continental Germanic tribes on these shores - an ampler account of which is to be found in Beowulf, and printed here as an Appendix titled 'The Finn Episode'. The book is provided with an introduction, notes and select bibliography.

The poems are: The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Riming Poem, Deor, Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, Resignation, The Husband's Message, and The Ruin, from The Exeter Book; and the passages: 'The Lament of the Last Survivor' (Beowulf 2247-66), 'A Father's Lament for his Son' (Beowulf 2444-62a), 'Beccel's Dirge' (Guthlac B 1348-79), Cyn(e)wulf's Epilogue' (Elene 1236-86a), and 'The Poet's Epilogue' (The Dream of the Rood 122-48a). The book is provided with an introduction, notes, select bibliography, and an appendix, 'Some Modern English renderings of The Ruin'

The main part of this work deals with runic verse inscriptions from Great Urswick, Thornhill, the Franks Casket, and the Ruthwell Cross, and the Anglo-Saxon poems with embedded runes, namely the Cyn(e)wulf signatures (from The Fates of the Apostles, Elene, Christ II, Juliana), Riddles 19, 24, 42, 58, 64, 75 & 76, The Husbands's Message, The First Dialogue of Solomon and Saturn, and The Rune Poem. The book is provided with an introduction, notes, an appendix containing The Abecedarium Nordmannicum, The Norwegian Rune Poem, and The Icelandic Rune Poem, and illustrations from original manuscripts.

This is the first book in the author's series of Anglo-Saxon Verse Specimens rendered into Modern English. The Anglo-Saxon text is given alongside its English rendering, whose initial letter (designed by Dave Thompson and Gavin Rodrigues) incorporates the clue to the solution in its design. The book also includes an introduction and a list of suggested solutions.

The seven Anglo-Saxon Elegies transcribed from The Exeter Book and provided with Modern English renderings are: The Ruin, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Deor, Wulf and Eadwacer, The Husband's Message, and The Wife's Lament. The book is provided with an introduction and notes.

Included here, in this parallel-text edition, apart from the passage titled 'Hrothgar's homiletic oration' (Beowulf 1700-84), are the poems Soul and Body, The First and Second Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, The Judgment Day I & II, The Descent into Hell, Vainglory, Precepts, Homilectic Fragments I, II & III, Almsgiving, An Exhortation to Christian Living, A Summons to Prayer, Maxims I & II, The Gifts of Men, The Fortunes of Men, and The Rune Poem. The book is provided with an introduction and a select biliography.

The poems from The Exeter Book, broadly termed 'religious allegories', are The Phoenix and three others, The Panther, The Whale and The Partridge. The book includes an introduction, notes, select bibligraphy, and appendices with the Latin texts of Lactantius' Carmen de ave phoenice, Ambrose's Hexameron, Carmody's Y and B versions of Physiologus, the Vespasian Anglo-Saxon text of The Phoenix, and parallel English renderings of all of the above-named.

This miscellaneous selection of Anglo-Saxon verse with parallel English renderings takes the author's work in this area towards completion. It includes selections from Beowulf and Judith, some of which have been published elsewhere, but others which are published here for the first time: Cædmon's Hymn, Bede's Death-song, 'The Fall of the Angels' (Genesis B 246-441), 'The Lamentations of the Fallen Angels (Christ and Satan 34-189), Christ III, and Durham. The book is provided with an introduction, notes, and select bibliography.

In this entirely new parallel-text edition, the solutions to the riddles from The Exeter Book, are no longer suggested in the design of the initial letters of their renderings. The book includes an introduction, notes, select bibliography, and an appendix with the Northumbian version of The Leiden Riddle.

THE DREAM OF THE ROOD AND CYN(E)WULF
AND OTHER CRITICAL ESSAYS
Llanerch Publishers
ISBN 1861430639

This selection of previously published and hitherto unpublished critical prose articles on poetry and prose translation, autobiography, hagiography, dialectology and social history, represents twenty-five years of the author's cross-cultural interests. The book also includes notes and a select bibliography after each essay.

ANGLO-SAXON VERSE CHARMS, MAXIMS & HEROIC LEGENDSLlanerch Publishers
ISBNs 1861430876

The Germanic tribes who settled in Britain during the fifth and early sixth centuries brought with them a store of heroic and folk traditions: folk-tales, legends, rune-lore, magic charms against misfortune and illness, herbal cures, and the homely wisdom of experience enshrined in maxims and gnomic verse. Louis Rodrigues looks at the heroic and folk traditions that were recorded in verse, and which have managed to survive the depredations of time. The book is provided with an introduction, select bibliography and notes.

CHIAROSCURO, Poems & Translations (1960-90)
Spendthrift Publications
ISBN 095174500X

This selection of verse and verse translations from Anglo-Saxon, Catalan, and Galician includes work that has appeared mainly in Ariel, El Correo Catalan, The Journal of the North American Catalan Society, The Lyric, Orbis, Outposts, and Rhyme Revival Anthology.

This bilingual anthology, selected and translated by Louis J. Rodrigues, contains a selection of poems by the Catalan poet Salvador Espriu (1913-1985), and draws on nine of his books, published between 1946 and 1972. Espriu, arguably the best-known post-Civil War poet in his native Catalonia, has had works translated into over 15 languages, including the main European languages as well as Chinese and Japanese.....

SHORT STORY TRANSLATION: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
by Josefina Bernet de Rodrigues,
Revised and partly re-written by Louis J Rodrigues
UNIVERSIDAD DE CÓRDOBA
ISBN 8478011773

Short Story Translation is an expanded version of an academic dissertation concerned with the theory and practice of translation, using seven short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro) as examples.
(Available direct from the author by prior agreement - please email the author to order copies of this book)

Spirit must be braver
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle "A-version" of The Battle of Brunanburh and the "Casley transcript" of The Battle of Maldon

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In Retrospect
Poems on religion, humor, politics, war, love, etc. - in a variety of literary forms and styles: songs, sonnets, satires, etc

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Say What I Am Called
A collection of riddles from sources including Anglo-Saxon texts from the Exeter Book.

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Out little spear
Twelve Corpus Christi College Cambridge and British Museum Verse Charms translated out of Anglo-Saxon into Modern English

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Wulf, my Wulf
Short heroic lays and legends belonging to the Continental past of the Anglo-Saxons from the Exeter Book and other manuscripts

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Full pitiless is Fate!
Anglo-Saxon elegiac verse from the Exeter and Vercelli Books and the Beowulf manuscript

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Presenting Anglo-Saxon literature to a twenty-first century readership
by Andrew Davie
A review of six publications by Louis J Rodrigues - as available from NoSpine.com

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Then at Midnight Suddenly
Anglo-Saxon poems on the Judgment Day from the Exeter Book and a manuscript in the Parker Library

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Merce Rodoreda's Short Stories
Two short stories by the best known woman Catalan writer of the twentieth century

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On Translating Salvador Espriu
Brief observations concerning parallel-text verse translation from Catalan

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Rosalia de Castro's Galician Poems
A critical examination of two Galician poems by Spain's most renowned poetess

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Cyn(e)wulf: More in our thoughts than in our prayers!
Cyn(e)wulf's 'runic' signatures to poems in the Exeter and Vercelli Books

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Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn: Seventeenth Century Diarists as Social Historians
A critical examination of the Diaries of two Seventeenth Century gentlemen

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Further observations concerning the translation of Anglo-Saxon Verse
Some Modern English translations of The Dream of the Rood (lines 28-56)

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Humour in the autobiographical writings of some Indian authors:
a brief survey
A critical examination of selected prose by five Indian writers.

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Robert Graves's Goodbye To All That: a critical appraisal
Text of a paper delivered on the subject of "Autobiography as a literary genre".

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A Cotswold Prayer examined
A linguistic analysis of a short recorded sample of the Cotswold dialect

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Frost shall freeze
Gnomic verse from the Exeter Book and a Cottonian manuscript from the eleventh century

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The Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11-32)
A critical examination of one of the best known of Christ's parables.

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Some Reflections on Poetry in Translation and its Criticism
Brief observations on translated poetry (FREE).

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The First and Second Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
Two Anglo-Saxon verse dialogues from manuscripts in Corpus Christi College Cambridge.

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Why must I slave
Anglo-Saxon Biblical and Apocryphal verse paraphrases from manuscripts in the Bodleian and the British Libraries.

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Lovely that Land
"The Phoenix" from two Anglo-Saxon manuscripts together with those from the Latin of Lactantius and Ambrose.

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Buy from ANGLO-SAXON ELEGIAC VERSE Llanerch Publishers ISBN 1897853319 The poems are: The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Riming Poem, Deor, Wulf and Eadwacer, The Wife's Lament, Resignation, The Husband's Message, and The Ruin, from The Exeter Book; and the passages: 'The Lament of the Last Survivor' (Beowulf 2247-66), 'A Father's Lament for his Son' (Beowulf 2444-62a), 'Beccel's Dirge' (Guthlac B 1348-79), Cyn(e)wulf's Epilogue' (Elene 1236-86a), and 'The Poet's Epilogue' (The Dream of the Rood 122-48a). The book is provided with an introduction, notes, select bibliography, and an appendix, 'Some Modern English renderings of The Ruin' Read extract and reviews Buy from ANGLO-SAXON VERSE RUNES Llanerch Publishers ISBN 0947992944 The main part of this work deals with runic verse inscriptions from Great Urswick, Thornhill, the Franks Casket, and the Ruthwell Cross, and the Anglo-Saxon poems with embedded runes, namely the Cyn(e)wulf signatures (from The Fates of the Apostles, Elene, Christ II, Juliana), Riddles 19, 24, 42, 58, 64, 75 & 76, The Husbands's Message, The First Dialogue of Solomon and Saturn, and The Rune Poem. The book is provided with an introduction, notes, an appendix containing The Abecedarium Nordmannicum, The Norwegian Rune Poem, and The Icelandic Rune Poem, and illustrations from original manuscripts. Read extract Buy from ANGLO-SAXON RIDDLES Llanerch Publishers ISBN 0947992464 This is the first book in the author's series of Anglo-Saxon Verse Specimens rendered into Modern English. The Anglo-Saxon text is given alongside its English rendering, whose initial letter (designed by Dave Thompson and Gavin Rodrigues) incorporates the clue to the solution in its design. The book also includes an introduction and a list of suggested solutions. Read extract Buy from SEVEN ANGLO-SAXON ELEGIES Llanerch Publishers ISBN 0947992677 The seven Anglo-Saxon Elegies transcribed from The Exeter Book and provided with Modern English renderings are: The Ruin, The Wanderer, The Seafarer, Deor, Wulf and Eadwacer, The Husband's Message, and The Wife's Lament. The book is provided with an introduction and notes. Read extract Buy from ANGLO-SAXON DIDACTIC VERSE Llanerch Publishers ISBN 1897853998 Included here, in this parallel-text edition, apart from the passage titled 'Hrothgar's homiletic oration' (Beowulf 1700-84), are the poems Soul and Body, The First and Second Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, The Judgment Day I & II, The Descent into Hell, Vainglory, Precepts, Homilectic Fragments I, II & III, Almsgiving, An Exhortation to Christian Living, A Summons to Prayer, Maxims I & II, The Gifts of Men, The Fortunes of Men, and The Rune Poem. The book is provided with an introduction and a select biliography. Read extract Buy from ANGLO-SAXON RELIGIOUS VERSE ALLEGORIES Llanerch Publishers ISBN 1861430221 The poems from The Exeter Book, broadly termed 'religious allegories', are The Phoenix and three others, The Panther, The Whale and The Partridge. The book includes an introduction, notes, select bibligraphy, and appendices with the Latin texts of Lactantius' Carmen de ave phoenice, Ambrose's Hexameron, Carmody's Y and B versions of Physiologus, the Vespasian Anglo-Saxon text of The Phoenix, and parallel English renderings of all of the above-named. Read extract Buy from AN ANGLO-SAXON VERSE MISCELLANY Llanerch Publishers ISBN 1861430361 This miscellaneous selection of Anglo-Saxon verse with parallel English renderings takes the author's work in this area towards completion. It includes selections from Beowulf and Judith, some of which have been published elsewhere, but others which are published here for the first time: Cædmon's Hymn, Bede's Death-song, 'The Fall of the Angels' (Genesis B 246-441), 'The Lamentations of the Fallen Angels (Christ and Satan 34-189), Christ III, and Durham. The book is provided with an introduction, notes, and select bibliography. 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Read extract and reviews Buy from SHORT STORY TRANSLATION: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE by Josefina Bernet de Rodrigues, Revised and partly re-written by Louis J Rodrigues UNIVERSIDAD DE CÓRDOBA ISBN 8478011773 Short Story Translation is an expanded version of an academic dissertation concerned with the theory and practice of translation, using seven short stories by Saki (H.H. Munro) as examples. (Available direct from the author by prior agreement - please email the author to order copies of this book) Read extract and reviews METAMORPHOSES Special Catalan Issue Vol. 5 Number 2, April 1997 Read extract Spirit must be braver The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle "A-version" of The Battle of Brunanburh and the "Casley transcript" of The Battle of Maldon Buy e-book from Margaret of Antioch - Pseudo-Saint and Martyr A discussion of the Life of St Margaret from an examination of two Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. 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