[SunkenCiv]

full title: "Secrets of Beowulf revealed: Relics discovered at Danish feasting hall which featured in Britain's oldest epic poem".

Manuscript: The one surviving copy of the poem is contained on badly burnt parchment in the British Library

[Neidermeyer]

Manuscript: The one surviving copy of the poem is contained on badly burnt parchment in the British Library
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And archived just the way someones mom might do it ,, scotch taped to another piece of cheap paper.

[sten]

there was a great video clip someone made from the beowulf & grendal fight with warcraft effects overlayed. it was very funny for anyone familiar with wow

it was titled: “2 GM’s fight on Deathwing durning Wintergrasp”

unfortunately, it’s been flushed down the copyright hole by youtube and i cannot find it on any other video sources.

[Flag_This]

"On the site there are the remains of hundreds of animals apparently killed and eaten at massive feasts, as recounted in the poem."

"...and the Lord didst grin and people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orang-utans and breakfast cereals and fruit bats and..."

[muir_redwoods]

“The Thirteenth Warrior” with Antonio Bandaras and “Eaters of the Dead” by Michael Chrichton are both pretty good retelling of the Beowulf story.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Hwæt! We Gar-Dena in gear-dagum

þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon,

hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon!

Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum

monegum mægþum meodo-setla ofteah;

egsode eorl[as] syððan ærest wearð

feasceaft funden; he þæs frofre gebad,

weox under wolcnum, weorð-myndum þah,

oðæt him æghwylc þara ymb-sittendra

ofer hron-rade hyran scolde,

gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!

What were we War-Danes in our yore-days?

Tribal-Kings! Truly cast that glory past,

how the counts had courage vast!

Oft Scyld Scefing shed Eotens'

many sons of mead-seats often.

Awesome Earl; since erst a whelp

fund-shorn found, was offered help.

Waxed under welkin, won worth-prestige

until all areas we edged with were beseiged

over the whale-road, wide wealth did they bring:

gave up their gold. That was a good king!

[SES1066]

It tells the tale of Beowulf, a Geat warrior from modern-day Scandinavia, who travels to Denmark to help King Hrothgar defend his magnificent hall of Heorot.

A "Geat warrior" (time traveler? from modern-day Scandinavia)? Wowsers!

[Verginius Rufus]

I have read that the reason the sole manuscript survived the fire in the Cotton library was that someone had put a bust over the manuscript, so only the edges were burned.

I once knew a professor who had a dog named Grendel. The dog was some kind of terrier, I think, and at most the size of a toy chihuahua. Not quite as terrifying as the Grendel of the poem.

[zeugma]

Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf was bloody awesome. Wife and I took it with us on vacation several years ago and read it aloud as we drove. It was great.

Unfortunately, Mr. Heaney passed on recently.

[Moltke]

Looks to be written in cursive. NO ONE CAN READ THAT!

[BenLurkin]

survives only in one manuscript from the early 11th century, which is now in the British Library but has been badly burnt...

"Them Dragons sure do know how to hold a grudge....

[generally]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

[TheOldLady]

Ping of interest to you?

[Lancey Howard]

The poem concludes decades later with a face-off between the ageing king and a fearsome dragon, ending with the death of both.

Thanks a lot. Where was the *spoiler alert* ?

[ctdonath2]

PDF of the original - PLEASE?