Powerful Words

Favorite lines from favorite works that make you smile.

þæt wæs god cyning!

That was one good king!

-Beowulf

Seamus Heaney new Verse Translation

11 Responses to “Powerful Words”

1. Mr. Bingley says:

   September 16, 2005 at 3:29 pm

   Ha!

2. tree hugging sister says:

   September 16, 2005 at 3:35 pm

   Made ya smile.
   Nyah.

3. tree hugging sister says:

   September 16, 2005 at 4:00 pm

   And that’s

   Hwæt!

   to you.

4. Ken Summers says:

   September 16, 2005 at 4:04 pm

   But what if I don’t want to Beowulf? What if I want to Beosheepdog?

5. Mr. Bingley says:

   September 16, 2005 at 4:08 pm

   How will CNN replace Blitzer?
   Via Ebeowulf.

6. tree hugging sister says:

   September 16, 2005 at 4:09 pm

   What if I want to Beosheepdog?
   Okay, as long as you don’t Doasheepdog.

7. Mr. Bingley says:

   September 16, 2005 at 4:09 pm

   Again.

8. Nightfly says:

   September 16, 2005 at 4:31 pm

   The demon grim was Grendel called
   Marsh-stalker huge, the moors he roamed…
   And that’s all I remember from English class. Could be time to go buy a certain verse translation instead of crappy 80s comps…

9. Cullen says:

   September 16, 2005 at 4:50 pm

   Anyone besides me, the geek, see the really bad Christopher Lambert Beowulf movie?

10. tree hugging sister says:

    September 16, 2005 at 5:22 pm

    (A cross-eyed, lispy French accented Beowulf?! Perish the thought!)
    No.

11. NJ Sue says:

    September 16, 2005 at 9:48 pm

    Grendel’s kenning is “hell-serf.” I just love that. It should be the name of a death metal band from Sweden.