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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:46:19 No.7300944 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7300950

What's the best way to read this/best version?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:48:23 No.7300950 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7300959 >>7300974 >>7301157

>>7300944

In Old English, of course.

If you lack the skill to learn another language, then read Heany's translation.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:51:05 No.7300959 Report Delete

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>>7300950
>Heany's translation
>translation
Be forewarned it is NOT a translation tho, OP. He's using both Irish Irish words (if they're incoherent enough) and English Irish words (if they are cognates with OE)

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 00:56:53 No.7300974 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7301168

>>7300950
more like lack the time tbh but thanks. Have you read it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 01:05:28 No.7301001 Report Delete

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bump

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:07:35 No.7301157 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7301161

>>7300950

The heany translation is awful. I don't know my Beowulf translations well, but if you can find one that even resembles Pound's "translation" of the Seafarer, I would go for it. You're not going to get much out of reading poetry in translation, but that's up for your lazy ass to figure out, OP. Anglo-Saxon is considered rather easy to learn. If I weren't learning 3 languages right now I would take it up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:09:07 No.7301161 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7301330

>>7301157
have you read beowolf?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:12:17 No.7301168 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7301172 >>7301216 >>7301454

>>7300974
I meant time-managing skills tbqhwy fam

Yeah, I've read it for a Medieval Literature class in college. Heany was a great poet and a very good translator. His is regarded as one of the best translations of Beowulf and it is used in many college courses. If you still have doubts, you may as well look at the previews in Amazon and compare Heany's translation with other ones and see which one you like best.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:13:16 No.7301172 Report Delete

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>>7301168
i already have 4 languages in the backlog so nah

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:26:24 No.7301216 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>7301227

>>7301168
back to reddit

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:29:35 No.7301227 Report Delete

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>>7301216

What gives?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 02:59:52 No.7301302 Report Delete

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzmmPRG4smU

Performed in Old English with subtitles. Easily torrentable.

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Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 03:17:44 No.7301330 Report Delete

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>>7301161

I've read the heaney side by side with the original, using a dictionary and guesswork for the first 100 lines. Call me in 10 years and I'll tell you the same thing after having read the original fully in fluency.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 30 Oct 2015 04:44:32 No.7301454 Report Delete

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>>7301168
back track more freshman ass nigga

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