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You could always read the Maria Dahvana Headley translation that starts with "Bro!": https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/beowulf-bro https://www.histor
by gadders 9mo ago
You could always read the Maria Dahvana Headley translation that starts with "Bro!":
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/beowulf-bro https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/beowulf-bro
"Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings!
In the old days, everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound.
Only stories now, but I’ll sound the Spear-Danes’ song, hoarded for hungry times."
- spchampion2 9mo agoI know it's unconventional, but I thoroughly enjoyed reading that translation. It felt so alive, and other translations have never engaged me in quite the same way.
- gadders 9mo agoIt was the only version I managed to finish, unless you count "Eaters of the Dead" by Michael Crichton (which is loosely based on it and mashed up with the story of Ahmad ibn Fadlan). I think it's a good compromise between staying true-ish to the language, and also making it come alive as an epic adventure story.
- Eric_WVGG 9mo agobeat me to it. another article: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/27/906423831/bro-this-is-not-the-beowulf-you-think-you-know https://www.npr.org/2020/08/27/906423831/bro-this-is-not-the... her adaptation, The Mere Wife, needs to get adapted to film or series yesterday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mere_Wife https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mere_Wife