베어울프 / Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem (영문판)

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'베어울프 / Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem'(영문판)은 고대 영국의 영웅 서사시로, 북유럽 전설과 영웅 담론을 담은 작품입니다. 이 시는 주인공 베어울프가 괴물 그렌델과의 치열한 싸움, 그의 어머니와의 사투, 그리고 나중에 용과의 대결을 그리며 용기, 명예, 운명, 고난 등 인류 보편의 주제를 깊이 있게 다룹니다. 특히 영문판으로 읽음으로써 고대 영어의 독특한 운율과 원문 특유의 어휘, 문화적 색채를 생생하게 경험할 수 있습니다. 영문판 독서는 언어적 감수성을 높이고, 번역본에서는 느낄 수 없는 본연의 매력을 발견하는 데 큰 장점이 있습니다.

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Lo! the Spear-Danes’ glory through splendid achievements
The folk-kings’ former fame we have heard of,
How princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle.
Oft Scyld the Scefing from scathers in numbers
From many a people their mead-benches tore.
Since first he found him friendless and wretched,
The earl had had terror: comfort he got for it,
Waxed ’neath the welkin, world-honor gained,
Till all his neighbors o’er sea were compelled to
Bow to his bidding and bring him their tribute:
An excellent atheling! After was borne him
A son and heir, young in his dwelling,
Whom God-Father sent to solace the people.
He had marked the misery malice had caused them,
That reaved of their rulers they wretched had erstwhile
Long been afflicted. The Lord, in requital,
Wielder of Glory, with world-honor blessed him.
Famed was Beowulf, far spread the glory
Of Scyld’s great son in the lands of the Danemen.
So the carle that is young, by kindnesses rendered
The friends of his father, with fees in abundance
Must be able to earn that when age approacheth
Eager companions aid him requitingly,
When war assaults him serve him as liegemen:
By praise-worthy actions must honor be got
’Mong all of the races. At the hour that was fated
Scyld then departed to the All-Father’s keeping
Warlike to wend him; away then they bare him
To the flood of the current, his fond-loving comrades,
As himself he had bidden, while the friend of the Scyldings
Word-sway wielded, and the well-lovèd land-prince
Long did rule them. The ring-stemmèd vessel,
Bark of the atheling, lay there at anchor,
Icy in glimmer and eager for sailing;
The belovèd leader laid they down there,
Giver of rings, on the breast of the vessel,
The famed by the mainmast. A many of jewels,
Of fretted embossings, from far-lands brought over,
Was placed near at hand then; and heard I not ever
That a folk ever furnished a float more superbly
With weapons of warfare, weeds for the battle,
Bills and burnies; on his bosom sparkled
Many a jewel that with him must travel
On the flush of the flood afar on the current.
And favors no fewer they furnished him soothly,
Excellent folk-gems, than others had given him
Who when first he was born outward did send him
Lone on the main, the merest of infants:
And a gold-fashioned standard they stretched under heaven
High o’er his head, let the holm-currents bear him,
Seaward consigned him: sad was their spirit,
Their mood very mournful. Men are not able
Soothly to tell us, they in halls who reside,
Heroes under heaven, to what haven he hied.

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이 작품은 1892년 레슬리 홀(Leslie Hall)이 번역 및 편집한 영문판입니다. 레슬리 홀은 19세기 말 영문학자이자 번역가로, 고대 영어 문학작품의 보존과 확산에 크게 기여하였습니다. 그의 번역은 충실하면서도 현대 독자들이 쉽게 접근할 수 있도록 배려된 것이 특징입니다. 레슬리 홀은 원문의 운율, 구조, 의미를 면밀히 분석하여 고대 영어의 매력을 최대한 살려냈으며, 영문학 연구자 및 고전문학 애호가들로부터 높은 평가를 받고 있습니다.