Translator's Notes

&ldquo;Like any interpretive work, a translation is the result of a volatile hermeneutic process. Its readers should be wary of accepting it as a record of “what the text says,” for the text says many things, some of them enigmatically.&rdquo; — John D. Niles, Rewriting Beowulf: The Task of Translation The bulk of the translation work was done using Artificial Intelligence (and in particular…