Bro, This Is Not The 'Beowulf' You Think You Know

NPR ^ | August 27, 2020 | Jason Sheehan

[a fool in paradise]

Bastardized mockery given the status of high art.

[a fool in paradise]

>>an epic mead-hall rap battle

Just NO

[dinodino]

wat

[a fool in paradise]

This sort of thing was cooler when Lord Buckley was doing it in the 1940s and 1950s

The Gettysburg Address (complete) by Lord Buckley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuQ-Xt-pDbk

[erkelly]

Beowulf left no maid to her mother.

[Salamander]

Just Hel no.

[dp0622]

I remember having to read that in school. It was the first time I contemplated suicide. In the end I decided to just read it.

I am still not sure I made the right decision :-)

That’s one boring and long story

[nickcarraway]

See The Brothers, a 1947 British movie that takes place in the Western Isles of Scotland. They had "rap battles," before there was even rap.

Fascinating movie.

[nickcarraway]

I have a CD of his material.

[Salamander]

I should’ve published my hillbilly version of Romeo & Juliet.

[KarlInOhio]

Sounds like Beo-woke.

[Salamander]

Scotland, PA.

A modern movie [whose name must never be spoken]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=wUO9K9dRQ3I&feature=emb_logo

[Salamander]

^^^^Wins the internet^^^^

[BradyLS]

You have to read it aloud with your horned helmet turned backwards to get the full dude-brah effect.

[nopardons]

This is a crime; an almost Ebonics version for people who will never read it!

[Salamander]

LOLOL

/and yer breeks hangin’ low?

[BradyLS]

Kinda like when Mike Fink would brag about himself with tall tales and challenge all comers to shootin’ or wrasslin.’

[BradyLS]

Or Beo-Woof!

[nopardons]

That’s even more weird than the gang bang Leo Di Caprio Romeo & Juliet movie, which stunk on ice!