The Introduction of Beowulf in the Original


Apparently, he performs the whole thing live. He'll be up in the northeast in March and April if you want to catch him.

If, on the other hand, the northeast is a bit far, he sells a DVD on his website as well.
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3 comments:

  1. Assistant Village Idiot10:44 PM

    It's got a nice drama to it, and perhaps gives us some of the emotional sense of what hearers would have experienced. I have no reason to think it is strictly authentic - who knows what the hell they did - but it takes it up out of the realm of plodding recitation which we learned in Anglo-Saxon class. I imagine they liked a good show in 1000 AD as we do now.

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  2. Eric Blair11:03 PM

    Oooooo...That's not far...

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  3. Grim12:04 AM

    Ah, this spring is such a bad time for anything beyond what I must already do. But for this... well, perhaps.

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