Beowulf, read in Anglo-Saxon, Part 1

Read by Trevor Eaton, 1996
00:00 - Line 1 - Scyld's final voyage
02:20 - Line 53 - Heorot, the splendid hall
03:55 - Line 86 - Grendel's visits to Heorot
08:54 - Line 194 - Beowulf's mission
10:24 - Line 229 - Beowulf tells coastguard they are friendly
13:30 - Line 301 - Beowulf proceeds to Heorot

[virginiamooney]

Listening to this in one tab, have a blizzard ambiance playing in another tab, and fireplace sounds in another tab. Hell yeah.

[Discrimination_is_not_a_right]

If you turn on subtitles, it reads like Finnegan's Wake.

[simondavis]

Trevor taught me English at Norton Knatchbull Grammar school in the 80's. Amazingly inspiring and read us The Canterbury Tales in Middle English.

[bustavonnutz]

Here wondering how much I can understand with English & German. No luck beyond a few lines; crazy how much English has changed.

[BlinJe]

8:12 - haéþenra hyht - for my reference.


Cheers for upload, kinsman.

[nathannakonieczny]

This literally makes more sense than the english version.

[pariahthistledown]

I fear that it might be easier to learn Old English than even Modern Irish :(

[parkerbeck]

This is awesome, although the guy clearly has a very modern British accent. I wonder what an Old English accent sounds like?

[MrEthanhines]

I don’t understand a thing but it’s a beautiful language!

[Retrogamer]

Old English: The original Viking speak to confuse the nords
Jokes aside it's wild to hear how English sounded a thousand years prior to its modern contemporary self

[LexWhitedotnet]

Why are there subliminal marketing messages added to this? Unethical.