[books 2012] Beowulf

[inulro]

59. Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

Goodness, but there's not much to it in translation. It helps that Heaney's translation is really easy to read.

I remembered more of it than I thought, and see where it accords and disagrees with the archaeology (which I'm reading about elsewhere at the moment), and where it has been used to fill in for the lack of historical evidence for Migration and Viking Age Scandinavia.

Oh, and it's a damn good adventure story.

Comments

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

It is very good. I found it great when I was translating chunks and got burnout - I could go and read the same passage in "easy" version and refresh my brain :)

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I feel ridiculously guilty for reading it in translation. For some reason when I bought it I thought it was a bilingual edition with the Anglo-Saxon on one side of the page and the translation on the other, but it's not.