People are making a lot of @MARIADAHVANA’s new Beowulf translation for its use of “Bro!” for “Hwæt!”, and it IS a sharp and *delightful* translation, though “Bro!”/“Hwæt!” is only the tip of the neologismberg:pic.twitter.com/p3VXf1KWTq
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There was a lot of valourization of the “ancient” past among the early English kings. They maintained a descent from Woden for a long time. But the dichotomy between “pagan” and Christian isn’t so clear cut.
And it’s not a Viking poem, it’s quite definitively English, although the English claimed descent from peoples who were also the ancestors of the Vikings.
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