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Aw, nuts.

I was about to write an article about Beowulf, and I discover that I've just been beaten to it.

Drat.

Nice article, though. A little rough around the edges, but it's good.

It's interesting seeing how another person handles the same idea, though; who emphasizes what, how the writing styles differ, that sort of thing.

Awww....

By all means, please pursue writing an article on Beowulf!!! I bet the editors will be able to combine our efforts... Of course, this isn't complete yet, and in all honesty, it is quite unlikely that I will be working on it-- at least not for a couple months, since I am in school.

I am hoping for someone to finish this for me, anyway... Do you want to ask Peta about this!?? She should know far more than I do.

Yeah, I'm in school too...that's why it seems to take me about a week (minimum) between posts. (I should really get on-line more.)

I'm new here. Who's Peta?


As far as the article, I don't mind collaborating at all!

You've come up with more on the history than I was aware of, which is good. I was planning on reverse-engineering a project I did my last year of high school, for my British Literature class (I'm in the U.S.). I was in the group researching the Anglo-Saxon period, and the highlight of our oral report was my "Beowulf: The Ten-Minute Version."

Yes, the whole thing, in prose, in less than ten minutes. (I even had little plastic Viking figures and a stuffed dragon as "visual aids".) It didn't alliterate, but I didn't cut a single verse.

OOOO!! THAT'S SOOO COOL!!!



Well, Peta is one of the Italics. She's a super-duper chicky who you can take your questions and complaints to. If you hit the "Who's Online" button you might catch her. And probably me too, since we're both Americans on that particular hemisphere time table!!!

I need more Brit Lit-- I have registered for a Shakespeare class in the fall, and will probably take Brit Lit II in the spring.

Heh. Maybe I should change my nickname to something like "The Phantom Poster". Guerilla tactics don't really work on a bulletin board system like this one, do they?


It's interesting how much Brit. Literature - heck, just Literature in English - has changed over the centuries. I mean, reading Beowulf out loud makes you sound like the Muppets' Swedish Chef...

Hee he hee.... YAY!!! Quite true!!!

Things keep changing and elvoving... new words.... everyday!!!

(New typos everyday too!!!)

Don't just "take Brit Lit."

First, find an area of literature for which you have some passion.

For me, it was literature before 1500. It's an area I would recommend, but if you delve into it, delve deep. The problem is this: translation is quite impossible.

You can read the Heaney translation and the Donaldson translation and the Rebsamen translation and Earle translation and so on and so forth, but in doing so, you haven't yet read "Beowulf."

If you're going to delve into the medieval, go all the way: learn Old English.

"Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcan." Which we will take as "so should a young person find the right thing to do."

Don't just "take Brit Lit."

First, find an area of literature for which you have some passion.

For me, it was literature before 1500. It's an area I would recommend, but if you delve into it, delve deep. The problem is this: translation is quite impossible.

You can read the Heaney translation and the Donaldson translation and the Rebsamen translation and Earle translation and so on and so forth, but in doing so, you haven't yet read "Beowulf."

If you're going to delve into the medieval, go all the way: learn Old English.

"Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcan." Which we will take as "so should a young person find the right thing to do."

Don't just "take Brit Lit."

First, find an area of literature for which you have some passion.

For me, it was literature before 1500. It's an area I would recommend, but if you delve into it, delve deep. The problem is this: translation is quite impossible.

You can read the Heaney translation and the Donaldson translation and the Rebsamen translation and Earle translation and so on and so forth, but in doing so, you haven't yet read "Beowulf."

If you're going to delve into the medieval, go all the way: learn Old English.

"Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcan." Which we will take as "so should a young person find the right thing to do."

Don't just "take Brit Lit."

First, find an area of literature for which you have some passion.

For me, it was literature before 1500. It's an area I would recommend, but if you delve into it, delve deep. The problem is this: translation is quite impossible.

You can read the Heaney translation and the Donaldson translation and the Rebsamen translation and Earle translation and so on and so forth, but in doing so, you haven't yet read "Beowulf."

If you're going to delve into the medieval, go all the way: learn Old English.

"Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcan." Which we will take as "so should a young person find the right thing to do."

Don't just "take Brit Lit."

First, find an area of literature for which you have some passion.

For me, it was literature before 1500. It's an area I would recommend, but if you delve into it, delve deep. The problem is this: translation is quite impossible.

You can read the Heaney translation and the Donaldson translation and the Rebsamen translation and Earle translation and so on and so forth, but in doing so, you haven't yet read "Beowulf."

If you're going to delve into the medieval, go all the way: learn Old English.

"Swa sceal geong guma gode gewyrcan." Which we will take as "so should a young person find the right thing to do."

WOW!!!

I bought "Grendel" today... can't wait to read it... but I have about twelve other books screaming at me as well!!!