A review by sschaut
Beowulf by Anonymous

Assigned reading for class. Honestly, not fully what I expected. Thankfully, we read a translated version. Since reading excerpts of The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer in the original Middle English, I’m very grateful to not try and read an even older text in its original form. Though, I still enjoyed the little translated words/phrases — shoutout to “whale-road.”

Def thought that the Grendel plot would’ve been a larger part of the epic, was proven wrong relatively quickly lol. I think the earlier sections of the poem were more interesting than the latter half, when Beowulf returns to his homeland, but that’s just me