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Beowulf-s

In 2021, I created the Beowulf-s project essentially by using OpenRefine to parse the text of Chauncey B. Tinker’s The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography (1903) into structured data. Tinker as data provides a handy curated list of (now) public domain texts, so I enriched the data with links to digitized copies of each record on the web. I could then use the structured data (a CSV) to generate a website (using CollectionBuilder) to explore the historic bibliography of Beowulf translations.

The whole project was inspired by Maria Dahvana Headley’s introduction to Beowulf: a New Translation (2020), which I would recommend giving a read! I describe it all a bit more on the About page.