Re: (Translation) Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley

In article <v63sua$28ic6$1@dont-email.me>,
Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

On 7/3/2024 9:08 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Beowulf: A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley
 
Noisy neighbours and an unresponsive HOA force Grendel to take
matters into his own hands.
 
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/great-balls-of-fire

>
Though I certainly knew of the poem earlier, my first
exposure to the story was John Gardner's 'Grendel', which
tells the first part of the story from the monster's POV.
>
I've seen it suggested that The Hobbit started off as
Tolkien retelling the second part (stealing from a dragons
horde) to this children, embellishing and extending the
story.
>

My father could read it in Old English and did his Phd on Beowulf,
however it never made it into our bedtime stories (not that we ever
fell asleep drunk in a meadhall).  I gave him a copy of Anderson's
version of Hrolf Kraki's Saga once, but I don't recall what he
thought about it.
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