The Elene of Cynewulf
YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
ALBERT S. COOK, Editor
XXI
the
Elene of Cynewulf
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE
BY
LUCIUS HUDSON HOLTPORTER FELLOW IN ENGLISH IN YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1904
YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
ALBERT S. COOK, Editor
XXI
the
Elene of Cynewulf
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE
BY
LUCIUS HUDSON HOLTPORTER FELLOW IN ENGLISH IN YALE UNIVERSITY
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
1904
Mr. Lucius Hudson Holt.
PREFACE
This translation was made from the edition of the Elene issued by Charles W. Kent in 1889 (Ginn & Co., Boston). His text is ‘that of Zupitza’s second edition, carefully compared with Wülker’s edition and Zupitza’s third edition, in which the results of Napier’s collation are contained.’
The aim of this translation is to give an accurate and readable modern English prose rendering of the Old English poetry. The translation of Richard Francis Weymouth, entitled A Literal Translation of Cynewulf’s Elene, has been at hand, but I owe it practically nothing in this work. While I trust that my rendering has not departed so far from the text that it will be valueless to the student, yet at places it will be found that I have to some extent expanded or contracted the literal translation in the hope of benefiting the modern English version.
My thanks are due to Dr. Robert K. Root and Dr. Chauncey B. Tinker of Yale University, and to Dr. Charles H. Whitman of Lehigh University, for examining part of the work in manuscript, and to Dr. Albert S. Cook of Yale University for a careful reading of the proof.
Lucius Hudson Holt.
New Haven,
January 1, 1904.
- 1. The Emperor Constantine.
- 2. The War with the Barbarians.
- 3. The Dream.
- 4. The Battle.
- 5. The Assembly.
- 6. The Conversion of Constantine.
- 7. The Journey of Elene.
- 8. The Councils of the Jews.
- 9. The Speech of Judas.
- 10. Elene and Judas.
- 11. The Finding of the Crosses.
- 12. The Miracle of the True Cross.
- 13. Judas and the Devil.
- 14. The Embassy to Constantine.
- 15. The Building of the Temple.
- 16. The Conversion of Judas.
- 17. The Finding of the Nails.
- 18. Elene’s Disposal of the Nails.
- 19. Conclusion.
- 20. Epilogue.
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