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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Elene of Cynewulf, by Cynewulf This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Elene of Cynewulf Author: Cynewulf Release Date: January 24, 2005 [EBook #14781] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ELENE OF CYNEWULF *** Produced by David Starner, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH ALBERT S. COOK, EDITOR XXI THE ELENE OF CYNEWULF TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH PROSE BY LUCIUS HUDSON HOLT PORTER FELLOW IN ENGLISH IN YALE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1904 [FACSIMILE] 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 Wuelker'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. ELENE 1. THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE. There had passed in the turn of years, as men mark the tale of time, two hundred and thirty and three winters over the world since the Lord God, the Glory of kings and Light of the faithful, was born on earth in human guise; and it was the sixth 5 year of the reign of Constantine since
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