This makes me miss teaching Beowulf - in gear-dagum, - when I had an excuse to start a lecture by just shouting, "Hwaet!"https://twitter.com/phil_lol_ogist/status/1331707566670438401 …
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Have you heard about the new Beowulf translation by Maria Dahvana Headley (
@MARIADAHVANA)? She uses modern idiom to convey the oral-epic feeling. Of particular note, she translates "hwæt" as "Bro!" A good review:https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/31/a-beowulf-for-our-moment …
I'm quite out of date on Beowulf - I haven't taught it in years and years (8 years, I think) and it isn't in my core research specialty. I knew there have been a few new translations, but it's hard to find the time. Ye Olde Heaney is what I have on my shelf.
