Great topic. I may have to get a copy.
I’d like to take this opportunity to recommend as strongly as I can Seamus Handey’s translation of Beowulf.
My wife and I took turns reading it to each other while driving across country a few years ago. Definitely read it aloud if you can.
Sadly Seamus has passed, but his efforts are remembered favorably. I wish I’d had a chance to tell him how much we enjoyed the experience.
Didn’t Morris do a translation of Beowulf? Beowulf always gave me the feeling that it was originally a much better tale presented in a totally pagan milieu, but was reworked by monkish hands into a weaker, Christianized version. Sort of like the Volsunga Saga versus the Niebelungenlied.