TIPS for Reading BEOWULF - Better Book Clubs

What could be cooler than reading a 1,000-year-old story?
If you'd like to hear it in the Old English, here's an excellent performance by Benjamin Bagby: • Beowulf: The Epic in P...
And here's a photograph of the only surviving written copy, held by the British Library: www.bl.uk/onli...
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[@misha1d1]

Heaney's translation is fantastic. The family tree was helpful.

[@kellicoffman8440]

Thank you for posting. I found your video about half way through reading the poem. Your suggestion of understanding it as history rather than adventure proved helpful and true as I continued to read. I just finished it.

[@BetterBookClubs]

Glad it was helpful!