Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 16 AIL 1516 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Beowulf and Old English
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The idea
Beowulf survives in a single manuscript in Old English, a language a modern reader cannot read without training. Every version a candidate meets is a translation, and this course reads Hall's. The text on disk opens by calling for attention to the Spear-Danes' glory.
In practice
Old English, always translated.
Where people slip
No modern reader reads it untranslated.
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