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9115213 No.9115213 [Reply] [Original]

Redpill me on Beowulf, pseuds. Is it worth reading again?

>> No.9115218

>reading again
>again

If you've already read it are you not informed enough to make that decision by yourself?

>> No.9115225
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>>9115213
Yeah to your kids.

>> No.9115281

>>9115213
Beowulf is cool, if we're talking about the Old English poem that is
however if we're talking about having read one of the modern retellings of the story, then no, it isn't worth reading again

>> No.9115307

>>9115218
No, i haven't read it since highschool

>> No.9115340

Beowulf is dope, just get a proper translation. I like Seamus Heaney's the best.

They guard the wolf-coverts,
Lands inaccessible, wind-beaten nesses,
Fearfullest fen-deeps, where a flood from the mountains
’Neath mists of the nesses netherward rattles,

>> No.9115342

>>9115281
Has there been a translation that keeps Saxon words as much as possible so it's less a translation and more an update? Like an Anglish translation?

>> No.9115349

Why not? It's pretty darn short

>> No.9115419

>>9115342
no clue desu, but I'm intuiting that if anyone really has made anything like that, it's probably closer to an Old English wikia public domain type deal, than legitimate academic publishing, not that that would make the translation automatically appear shittier in anyone's eyes

>> No.9116664

Shove your redpill up my ass

>> No.9117645

>>9115213
>>9115342
>>9115213
https://www.amazon.com/Beowulf-Broadview-Literary-Texts/dp/1551111896/ref=sr_1_30?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487342693&sr=1-30&keywords=beowulf+translation

I know Roy. This is the best scholarly edition out there. Beowulf in general is more of a historical oddity - it's only famous because we have it. For all we know it could have been the Pet Cemetary of old english lit.

>> No.9117662

>>9117645
We don't know what else we lost in the Cotton Library Fire. Somewhere in that blaze could have been something that put even Homer to shame.

I mean, that's the tragedy of lost books. We just don't know.

>> No.9117668

>>9117662
>tfw you will never go on a time travelling adventure to save precious books and manuscripts from being destroyed

>> No.9117671

>reading beowulf

Lmao you pleb, real patrician LISTEN beowulf as recited by a skald

>> No.9117677

>>9117662
And for all the scholarly debate about what it is, Michael Crichton's hypothesis-as-troubled-Hollywood-blockbuster is still the most satisfying explanation.

>> No.9117686
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9117686

Of course it's worth reading again. My Old English class spent a year translating huge chunks of it and reading the original, and I still love decent translations of it.

>> No.9117700

>>9117668
>ywn dash into the smoldering ruins of the fire and handle priceless unique pages and carefully place them on the lawn to be dried and recataloged later under the supervision of the Houfe of Commonf.

https://books.google.com/books?id=m3pbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA9&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false