I just read Rotgé's French translation. It was good.Why won't bongs read their own epic?There are other translations than the ones by Headley and Purvis, you know.
>>25428907I love Beowulf and I am a bong. But to answer your question: probably because the ruling class is descended from Norman admixture, who disregarded Anglo-Saxon culture in favour of French romances and Arthurian legends; therfore such things are seen as more cultured than something like Beowulf. As a proud Anglo-Saxon peasant, though, I adore Beowulf.
>>25428930Did you read Tolkien's translation? If so, what did you think of it?
>>25428940I have not. I've read Seamus Heaney's and Michael Alexander's translations. I'm going to learn Old English to read in the original but I've been pretty lazy and lethargic this year.
>>25428947>I'm going to learn Old EnglishWell good luck with that, anon!
Why do Old English retards (scholars) say "hwet" has no modern English equivalent when "what" exists?
>>25429218It's better translated as "bro", silly:>In her 2020 feminist translation of Beowulf, Maria Dahvana Headley begins the poem with ‘Bro!’ Headley points out that the tone of ‘Bro!’ can indicate whether someone is friend or foe, but it’s also a way of satirizing ‘a certain form of inflated, overconfident, aggressive male behavior’.>Headley’s use of ‘bro’ throughout her translation reminds us ‘the ways that men can afford (or deny) one another power and safety by using coded language, and erase women from power structures by speaking collegially only to other men’.I swear people like this are fucked in the head.
>>25428907Brits are niggerified. The youth is indian and muslim. It's done, finished, k.o., caput etc.
King Arthur is our epic
>>25429342>best King Arthur "epic" might be Mallory's Le Morte d'Arthur>partially based on French sourcesWell well well. What would you bongs do without us frogs, heh?
>>25429370>tfw Macron was sexting Golshifteh FarahaniImpeccable taste.
>>25429297>[...] Headley does use the odd archaism and regionalism – but her primary tool is an American ‘guy slang’, which is a wonderfully productive lens through which to read a poem like this one, concerned as it is with ‘manly virtues’.>It cuts through the aphoristic vagueness of a line like Gǣð ā wyrd swā hīo scel (‘Fate will be as it will be’), reducing it to the pithy ‘Bro, Fate can fuck you up’, which is really what is meant. Individual translation choices are often glorious. Searwum fāh ‘decorated with artistry’ here becomes ‘blinged-out’, where again the audacity does not obscure the accuracy. [...]>Seamus Heaney: 'But |Grendel] knows he need never be in dread>Of your blade making mizzle of his blood>Or of vengeance arriving ever from this quarter—>From the Victory-Shieldings, the shoulderers of the spear.'>>Maria Headley: 'Grendel was aware he had nothing to fear here.>Your sword's soft, son.'>Seamus Heaney: 'So learn from this>and understand true values. I who tell you>have wintered into wisdom.'>>Maria Headley: 'Listen to me, boy. Keep your shit straight.>I've been fostered by frost-seasons, fathered by time,>and I'm dropping knowledge now.'>Seamus Heaney: 'They had seen me boltered in the blood of enemies>when I battled and bound five beasts,>raided a troll-nest and in the night-sea>slaughtered sea-brutes. I have suffered extremes>and avenged the Geats (their enemies brought it>upon themselves, I devastated them).'>>Maria Headley: 'Yes: I mean—I may have bathed in the blood of beasts,>netted five foul ogres at once, smashed my way into a troll den>and come out swinging, gone skinny-dipping in a sleeping sea>and made sashimi of some sea monsters.>Anyone who fucks with the Geats? Bro, they have to fuck with me.>They're asking for it, and I deal them death.'
>>25429218https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whisht
>>25429297>men can afford (or deny) one another power and safety by using coded language, and erase women from power structures by speaking collegially only to other menShe has a point people will include those they like and passively exclude othersAnyway beowulf ratio of preamble to action is 1000:1
>>25430441>She has a point people will include those they like and passively exclude othersWhich isn't what's happening in the poem.>beowulf ratio of preamble to action is 1000:1I didn't mind it but it's true the confrontations are rather short.
