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Just finished this. Reminds me of how J.R.R. Tolkien was a huge fan and drew so much of LOTR from Beowulf. I felt like I was reading The Hobbit for parts of it.

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@wanderloots.eth

Ooh great suggestion. Read an older version in high school and loved it. Amazing how much myth permeates our culture

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"...the poem begins with the word 'Bro!' and Queen Wealhtheow is 'hashtag: blessed'..." ―Danielle Trussoni, The New York Times Book Review Amazing. Definitely picking up a copy.

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How funny, I just read this too and kept thinking of Rohan

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Beowulf and Gawain and the Green Knight best old English lyric poetry change my mind.

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check the The Prose Edda by Snorri if you haven't, great stuff and also lots taken from it by Tolkien.

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read it in school, nice memories

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I haven't read it; it was on my to-do list as a teenager. I will have to add it back to my list 🤓

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Hwaet! Ic sceolde agiefan aet laestan siex endlican fandungbec on þissum anum. Heonon forð, ic spece on þam soðran Englisc ana.

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I felt the same way reading the Norse Eddas. If they had been packaged as unfinished Tolkien stories, I’m not sure I would have questioned it.

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Also that Beowulf cover is 🤌

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@zachharris.eth

Only this is the alpha… weird when a first cultural reference is the derivative, isn’t it?

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@vizualobserver

for sure, I also love how much Tolkien drew from Beowulf in creating Rohan; the Golden Hall of Edoras even takes its name, Meduseld, from the earlier work. I'm a fan of Seamus Heaney's translation, will have to check out the Headley.

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One of my favorite novels is Grendel by John Gardner. Sounds like gimmick — Beowulf retold from Grendel's POV — but in Gardner's hands it works. Mind you I read it like 20 years ago, but one of those I'd expect to hold up on a re-read.

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