词条 | Sellic Spell |
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Dating and CompositionThe text's editor, Christopher Tolkien, dates much of the composition and revision of the tale to the early 1940s on the basis of datable content on the versos of the manuscript leaves.{{sfn | Tolkien | 2014 | p = 359}} The tale was actually accepted for publication in the forties by Gwyn Jones, who had already published The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun for Tolkien in The Welsh Review; but the collapse of the latter in 1948 prevented Sellic Spell from appearing for almost seventy years.[3] In a note discovered among his papers, J.R.R. Tolkien claims to have "[put] it first into Old English".{{sfn | Tolkien | 2014 | p = 355}} However, Christopher Tolkien observes that this sequence of events is inconsistent with the textual evidence, since the earliest manuscript of the Modern English text was revised into a form that corresponds in several places to the Old English text, which was thus probably based on a version of the Modern English tale.{{sfn | Tolkien | 2014 | pp = 404-406}} The Old English version as published is furthermore incomplete, breaking off before either of the two companions faces Grendel. The Modern English text exists in three (partial) manuscripts and two typescripts; Christopher Tolkien published the text of the later typescript along with the Old English translation and a discussion of the tale's revision history in 2014.{{sfn | Tolkien | 2014}} See also
References1. ^{{Cite book |ref= harv| last=Tolkien | first=J.R.R. | editor=Christopher Tolkien | title=Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary Together with Sellic Spell | year=2014 | publisher=HarperCollinsPublishers |location=London | isbn=978-0-00-759006-3 | pages=358}} {{J. R. R. Tolkien}}{{Beowulf}}2. ^{{Cite journal | last=Lawrence | first=William Witherle | title=The Haunted Mere in Beowulf | journal=PMLA | issue=27.2 | year=1912 | pages=231-245}} 3. ^J. Rateliff ed., Mr Baggins (London 2007) p. 281-2 3 : Beowulf|Short stories by J. R. R. Tolkien|Old English literature |
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