Beowulf, by Anonymous [CN: ableism, graphic violence]
A brand new feminist translation by Maria Dahvana Headley.
Side-by-side edition, translated and edited by Benjamin Slade
Parallel translations of key moments, compiled by Syd Allan
“The Wanderer” and “The Wife’s Lament,” by Anonymous, translated by Aaron Hostetter
Dorothy Kim’s ‘The Question of Race in Beowulf“
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)“, in Classic Readings on Monster Theory : Demonstrare, Volume One. Edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel. Arc Humanities Press, 2018. [CN: ableism]
Optional Readings
Toni Morrison’s “Grendel and his Mother” from The Source of Self-Regard (2019)
Article on Nonbinary Viking Burials
Dorothy Kim’s White Supremacists Have Weaponized an Imaginary Viking Past. It’s Time to Reclaim the Real History