Finn and Hengest

Finn and Hengest is a study by the English professor JRR Tolkien that was published posthumously in 1982. Alan Bliss, the editor, compiled the work based on lecture notes and other material by JRR Tolkien.

Background of the fragments

As holder of the Rawlinson and Bosworth Chair in Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University , Tolkien gave six different lectures between 1928 and 1937 on the subject of Finn and Hengest . These were: The fight at the Finnesburg and the Finn Episode (1928), Finn and Hengest: the problem of the episode in Beowulf (1930), Finn and Hengest: the Fragment and the Episode (1931), The fight at Finnesburg (1934 ) and Finn and Hengest (1935, 1937). Another series of lectures was announced for 1939, but had to be canceled due to the outbreak of World War II. In 1963, however, when Tolkien briefly replaced his successor CL Wrenn at the university, he took the opportunity and held the lectures announced for 1939.

References to the legend of Finn and Hengest can be found in several works:

In the listing of the tribes of Widsith on line 25: Fin Folcwalding. Fresna cynne.
The episode in Beowulf, starting with line 1066 through line 1159.
The fragment The Fight at Finnesburg .

literature

JRR Tolkien: Finn and Hengest. edited by Alan Bliss, HarperCollins, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-261-10355-9 .

Web links

The Attack in Finnsburh in Old English at Wikisource
Review of the work on tolkiens-welt.de

Works by JRR Tolkien


Fiction	Songs for the Philologists (1936) • The Hobbit (1937) • Blatt von Tüftler (1947) • The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945) • Bauer Giles von Ham (1949) • The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) • The Lord of the Rings (1954/55) • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Poems from the Red Book (1962) • Tree and Leaf (1964) • The Tolkien Reader (1966) • The Road Goes Ever On (1967) • Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
Posthumously published fiction	Santa's Letters (1976) • The Silmarillion (1977) • News from Middle-earth (1980) • Mr. Bliss (1982) • Bilbo's Farewell Song (1990) • The History of Middle-earth (12 volumes; 1983–1996) • The Lost Road and Other Writings (Volume 5, 1987) • Roverandom (1998) • The Children of Húrin (2007) • The History of The Hobbit (2007) • The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009) • King Arthur's Fall (2013) • The Story of Kullervo (2015) • Beren and Lúthien (2017) • The Fall of Gondolin (2018)
Academic works	A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) • Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (1925) • The Devil's Coach-Horses (1925) • Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929) • The Name Nodens (1932) • Sigelwara Land Parts I and II, in Medium Aevum (1932–1934) • Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934) • Beowulf: The Monsters and Their Critics (1936) • The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the "summer diversions" (1939) • On Fairy-Stories (1939) • Sir Orfeo (1944) • Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death (1953) • Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic inquiry ( 1953) • Ancrene Wisse : The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962) • English and Welsh (1963) • Introduction to Tree and Leaf (1964) • Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966) • Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (1966)
Posthumous academic publications	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight , Pearl and Sir Orfeo (translations into modern English, 1975) • Finn and Hengest (1982) • The Monsters and the Critics (1983) • Beowulf and the Critics (2002) • Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary (2014)