HWAET!

Here are links to Benjamin Bagby’s performance of Beowulf in Old English. Amaze your friends!

The first is the clip we watched in class (of the opening 11 lines) and the other two are from later moments in the poem.

Opening Lines

Battle

Grendel’s Ambush

And here’s the text of the poem in Old English, in case you’d like to compare our translation to the original:

Beowulf in Old English

Finally, here’s a useful website with more resources for reading and thinking about the poem:

Beowulf Resources

Update: I’m adding the slideshow of the Sutton Hoo excavation (created by Google and the British Museum): Sutton Hoo