The fortunes of men

Titre:	Aucun titre dans le ms.; On the various fortunes of men (titre dans l'éd. Thorpe); The fortunes of men (titre moderne); The fates of men (trad. Gordon); The fates of mortals; Der Menschen Geschicke
Date:	X^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	99 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Ful oft þæt gegongeð, mid godes meahtum, þætte wer ond wif in woruld cennað bearn mid gebyrdum mid bleom gyrwað, tennaþ ond tætaþ, oþþæt seo tid cymeð…
Explicit:	… sceop ond scyrede ond gesceapo ferede æghwylcum on eorþan eormencynnes. Forþon him nu ealles þonc æghwa secge, þæs þe he fore his miltsum monnum scrifeð.

Manuscrits

Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3501, f. 87r–88v [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Codex Exoniensis. A Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, from a Manuscript in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, with an English translation, notes and indexes, by Benjamin Thorpe, London, Pickering for The Society of Antiquaries of London, 1842, xvi + 546 p. (ici p. 327-333) [GB] [IA]
Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker, Kassel, Wigand, 1883-1898, 5 t. (ici t. 3, p. 148-151) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Éditions antérieures:
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie in kritisch bearbeiteten Texten und mit vollständigem Glossar herausgegeben von C. W. M. Grein, Göttingen, Wigand, 1857-1864, 4 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. I. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1881, vii + 422 p. + [4] p. de pl. [GB] [IA]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. II. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1888, vi + 210 p. [GB] [IA]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. III. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1897, [vii] + 248 p. [GB] [IA]
Die Handschriften von Exeter: Metra des Boetius, Salomo und Saturn, die Psalmen. Herausgegeben von Bruno Assmann nebst einer Lebensskizze Grein's von Richard Paul Wülker und mit Grein's Bildnis, Leipzig, Wigand's Verlag (Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie, 3:1-2), 1897-1898, 2 t. en 1 vol., [vi] + 248, xiii + 247-490 p. (ici t. 1, p. 148-151) [GB] [IA]
The Exeter Book Part Two, London, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series), 1933.
The Exeter Book, éd. George Philip Krapp et Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie, New York, Columbia University Press (The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 3), 1936.
Poems of Wisdom and Learning in Old English, éd. et trad. T. A. Shippey, Cambridge, Brewer; Totowa, Rowman and Littlefield, 1976, [viii] + 152 p. (ici p. 58-63) [IA]
The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, éd. Bernard J. Muir, Revised 2nd Edition, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2000, 2 t.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Thorpe 1842 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1954, xiv + 334 p. (ici p. 318-319)
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1926, xvi + 367 p. [HT] [IA]
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1930, xvi + 367 p. [IA]
  - 1934
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1937, xvi + 367 p. [IA]
  - 1950
  Réimpressions:
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1957, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1962, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - 1964
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1967, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - 1970
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Melbourne et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1977, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
- Early English Poetry, translated by Charles W. Kennedy, New York, Oxford University Press, 1961.
- Hickey, Emily H., « The Wanderer », Select Translation from Old English Poetry, éd. Albert S. Cook et Chauncey B. Tinker, Westport, Greenwood, 1970.
- Shippey 1976 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry: An Anthology of Old English Poems in Prose Translation, with introduction and headnotes by S. A. J. Bradley, London, Dent (Everyman's Library, 1794), 1982, xxvi + 559 p. — Réimpr.: 1995; 2000.
- Beowulf and Other Old English Poems, edited and translated by Craig Williamson; with a foreword by Tom Shippey, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press (The Middle Ages Series), 2011, xxxi + 256 p. (ici p. 186-189)

Études

Dammers, R. H., « Unity and artistry in The Fortunes of Men », American Benedictine Review, 27, 1976, p. 461-469.
Drout, Michael D. C., « The Fortunes of Men 4a: reasons for adopting a very old emendation », Modern Philology, 96:2, 1998, p. 184-187.
Jurasinksi, Stefan, « Caring for the dead in The Fortunes of Men », Philological Quarterly, 86, 2007, p. 343-363.
Mackie, W. S., « Notes on the text of the Exeter Book », The Modern Language Review, 28:1, 1933, p. 75-78. DOI: 10.2307/3715887
Neidorf, Leonard, « The structure and theme of The Fortunes of Men », English Studies, 101, 2020, p. 97-111.
Swenson, Karen, « Death appropriated in The Fates of Men », Studies in Philology, 88, 1991, p. 123-139.

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