👻™ Lil Guy Advocate 🐊 on Nostr: Found out about a translation of Beowulf that came out in 2020 that aims to render it ...
Found out about a translation of Beowulf that came out in 2020 that aims to render it as contemporary spoken English while still maintaining the rhythm and character of the original text and I'm in love
It's funny, but not like it's making fun of the poem, she just injected some humour into it that probably was there in the original in the first place
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2023-12-05 02:22:25Event JSON
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