I Try to Explain Beowulf

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Recommended Reading on Beowulf:
Beowulf: Translation and Commentary by Tom Shippey & Leonard Neidorf
Beowulf and the North Before the Vikings by Tom Shippey

Thanks to Adam B from Ludohistory for helping me with my research. Check out his channel!

Jake Doubleyoo

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Beowulf be like:

*I HEARD YOU TALKING SHIT!*
**Random Guitar shredding**

DaGonkman

I slammed the thumbnail as soon as I saw it and then instantly fell back into my depression when I saw it hadn't been published yet.

jargontrueseer

"What's he gonna do? T-pose on Grendel?" Jesus Christ, what a burn

AaronCorr

I love how Beowulf's full battle gear features his mustache.

ozzelot

Well I'm glad people are at least making more Gyatt jokes than Gay-at jokes.

JakeDoubleyoo

Thank you for this one, I'm crying. When my grandmother was moved to the nursing home for her dementia, I would come every week and read a chapter of Beowulf. It became our thing for nearly a year, until she passed away, and other patients would join in so it became a pseudo-bookclub. This brought back some good memories.

tylerray

I like Grendel. They never bothered to explain what he was except some hell spawn-thing. Clearly, writers of old did not predict the 21st century fantasy craze and nerds.

alexrexaros

"I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power! I AM BEOWULF!"

johithestar

"Hey aren't you that plank god?"
"Father send this one back to hell"

challengeaccepted

Reuploaded because I noticed a mistake.

JakeDoubleyoo

beowulf looking like a norseman who got zipped into the dragonball universe (dw, i mean this as a compliment, i love your art jake)

tinagoli

8:20
The goddamn Berserk 2016 reference with the loud clanging was masterful, thank you, lmaooo

tourmalineii

Dude's really committed to the 4:3 bit, isn't he?

Loved this video. I actually read an abridged version of Beowulf in my English Literature class in high school. You really did it justice. Especially the parts where the Christian monks transcribing the story took jabs at Germanic paganism.

OptimusPhillip

I love the detail you put into the hilt of the bigass sword that killed Grendel's mum. In the original text it, the carvings on the hilt depicted the flooding of the Earth and the destruction of the Biblical giants, and i can see glimpses of that at 9:41. Awesome attention to detail.
Not to mention the lack of wings on the dragon, since Germanic wyrms don't always have wings

mon_moi