Beowulf

a New Translation

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Maria Dahvana Headley: Beowulf (2020, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

176 pages

English language

Published Jan. 4, 2020 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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A masterpiece - try the audiobook

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I listen to a lot of audiobooks. Even if you don't this one is worth trying. It's an epic poem that was certainly passed down orally for generations before it was ever written down. Imagining the changes it would have gone through during that process makes me enjoy this modern-language translation even more. It might not be a translation that hold up forever, but it fits here and now.