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I wish this book were more committed to weirdness or less committed to fidelity, given the author's purpose of looking at Beowulf "through the lens of the bro-story," but it mostly just reads like a run-of-the-mill translation with the occasional awkward insertion of 2020 idioms:
"Bro, lemme say how fucked they were,...more
in times of worst woe throwing themselves
on luck rather than on faith, fire-walkers
swearing their feet uncharred, while
smoke stepping." (181–185)
"She went round,
a Helming-hostess, tre
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it was amazing
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A real eighth-century page-turner.
Classic story, although I hated it the first time I read it. Don't bother unless it's Heaney's translation. He's a lovely poet with a great sense of modern language and rhythm that makes it easy to read and understand.
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