title: Roy Liuzza
text: # Roy Liuzza
  
  Roy Liuzza is an American scholar of Old English literature. A professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Liuzza is the former editor of the Old English Newsletter. He has published a translation of Beowulf which was well-received and praised for its readability and correspondence with the original, besides scholarly monographs and articles, including many on translating and dating Beowulf.
  
  Grendel reaches Heorot: Beowulf 710–714 :
  
  | Old English verse | Liuzza's prose |
  | - | - |
  | Ðá cóm of móre under misthleoþum | Then from the moor, in a blanket of mist, |
  | Grendel gongan· godes yrre bær· | Grendel came stalking — he bore God's anger; |
  | mynte se mánscaða manna cynnes | the evil marauder meant to ensnare |
  | sumne besyrwan in sele þám héan· | some of human-kind in that high hall. |
  