Beowulf - 'The Death of Shield Sheafson'

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Opening text from the Anglo-Saxon Saga Beowulf (Seamus Heany Translation). Funeral beliefs from the earliest Anglo-Saxon Literature (composed in the 10th Century using folklore accounts of the Sixth Century).
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I love Heaney's translation. Well read!

Survivethejive
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Well read mate. Heaney`s rendering of Beowulf is great. My favourite poem

waynemcauliffe
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The bard declaims in a voice to span the ages; the warriors sit entranced around the fire.
The very spirits creep forth from the woods to hear the tales of human deeds.

Reziac
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I guess the whales salvaged it. It was right in their road.

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