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user-inactivated · 3129 days ago · link · · parent · post: September 28th: What are you reading this week?
Have you read Seamus Heany's translation? It's the only one I've read but I think it's great.Speaking of Tolkien, I still have to get around to reading his translation of Beowulf, it's somewhere in my house. Just gotta find it...
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user-inactivated · 3128 days ago · link ·
If you can, see if they have the Bilingual Edition. It has his modern English translation side by side with the text in Old English (or is it Gaelic? I dunno.). I mean, I can't read it or understand it, but to know it's there every time I glance to the left half of the book just makes what I'm reading seem that much more special.