Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode

Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode is a book edited by Alan Bliss featuring a study by J.R.R Tolkien of a Medieval story. The book was published in 1983, by George Allen & Unwin. It was published again by Houghton Mifflin in 1998 and 2006.
It is not a work of the Middle-earth legendarium.
==About==
Finn and Hengest are two Anglo-Saxon heroes appearing in the Old English epic poem Beowulf and in a fragment of "The Fight at Finnsburg". Hengest has sometimes been identified with the Jutish king of Kent. He and his brother Horsa (the names meaning "stallion" and "horse") were legendary leaders of the first Anglo-Saxon immigrants to Britain as mercenaries in the 5th century.
Finn and Hengest is based on an edited series of lectures Tolkien made before and after World War II. In his lectures, Tolkien argued that the Hengest of "The Fight at Finnsburg" and of Beowulf was an historical rather than a legendary figure and that these works record episodes from an orally composed and transmitted history of the Hengest named in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle." This view has gained acceptance from a number of medieval historian and Anglo-Saxon scholars both since Tolkien's initial lectures and since the publication of this posthumous collection.
Tolkien's lectures describe what he called the "Jutes-on-both-sides theory", which was his explanation for the puzzling occurrence of the word ēotenas found in Beowulf. Tolkien read the word as Jutes, and theorized that the fight was a purely Jutish feud, and Finn and Hnæf were simply caught up by circumstance. Tolkien explained both their presence and their ambiguous loyalty with his following interpretation of the story.
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==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Finn en Hengest
Albanian 	Finn dhe Hengest
Arabic 	فين وهينغست
Armenian 	Ֆինն եւ Հենգեստ
Asturian 	Finn y Hengest
Azerbaijani 	Finn və Hengest
Basque 	Finn eta Hengest
Belarusian Cyrillic	Фін і Hенгест
Bengali 	ফিন এবং হেঙেস্ত
Bosnian 	Finn i Hengest
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Фин и Хенгист
Catalan 	Finn i Hengest
Cebuanno 	Finn ug Hengest
Chinese 	芬恩和亨格斯
Croatian 	Finn i Hengest
Czech 	Finn a Hengest
Danish 	Finn og Hengest
Dutch 	Finn en Hengest
Estonian 	Finn ja Hengest
Filipino 	Finn at Hengest
Finnish 	Finn ja Hengest
French 	Finn et Hengest
Frisian 	Finn en Hengest
Galician 	Finn e Hengest
Georgian 	ფინი და ჰენგესტი
German 	Finn und Hengest
Greek 	Φιν και Χένγκεστ
Gujarati 	ફિન અને હેન્જેસ્ટ
Hebrew 	פין והנגסט
Hindi 	फिन और हेंगस्ट
Hungarian 	Finn és Hengest
Indonesian 	Finn dan Hengest
Italian 	Finn e Hengest
Japanese 	フィンとヘンゲスト
Kannada 	ಫಿನ್ ಮತ್ತು ಹೆಂಗೆಸ್ಟ್
Kazakh 	Финн және Хэнгст (Cyrillic) Fïnn jäne Xéngst (Latin)
Korean 	핀과 헨게스트
Latvian 	Finn un Hengest
Lithuanian 	Finn ir Hengest
Luxembourgish 	Finn et Hengest
Macedonian Cyrillic	Финецот и Хенгест
Maltese 	Finn u Hengest
Marathi 	फिन आणि हेन्गस्ट
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Фин ба Hengест
Nepalese 	फिन र हेंगेस्ट
Norwegian 	Finn og Hengest
Polish 	Finn i Hengest
Portuguese 	Finn e Hengest
Punjabi 	ਫਿਨ ਅਤੇ ਹੇਨੈਗੇਟ
Romanian 	Finn și Hengest
Scots 	Finn an Hengest
Serbian 	Фин и Хенгест (Cyrillic) Fin i Hengest (Latin)
Sinhalese 	ෆින් සහ හෙඞෙස්ත්
Slovak 	Finn a Hengest
Slovenian 	Finn in Hengest
Somalian 	Finn iyo Hengest
Spanish 	Finn y Hengest
Swahili 	Finn na Hengest
Swedish 	Finn och Hengest
Tajik Cyrillic 	Финн ва Ҳенгест
Tamil 	பின் மற்றும் ஹெங்கஸ்ட்
Telugu 	ఫిన్ మరియు హెంజెస్ట్
Thai 	ฟินน์และเฮงเฮสต์
Turkish 	Finn ve Hengest
Turkmen 	Finn we Hengest
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Фінн і Хенгест
Vietnamese 	Finn và Hengest
Welsh 	Finn a Hengest
Yiddish 	פינף און הענגעסט
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