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 Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:33 pm
dude, Ive read beowulf.
I know what the heck he fought.
but for the sake of continued peace in the galaxy, I'll say this:
To each their own.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:51 pm
He fights grendel, whose apparent form is never really detailed in discussion. He fights Grendel's mother, who I imagine as a dragon, but once again, lack of disussion.
Then he fights a dragon. and gets pwned at 73 years of age.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 4:55 pm
yep. what a rich and full life.
truly worthy of a Nordic hero.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:19 pm
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:22 pm
we's be talkin' bout Beowulf.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:28 pm
Beowulf - epic hero in some story
I remember reading it, or at least a section of it, during homeschooling.
I can't remember anything about it really, other than it sucked IMO, because it lacked a maniac with an SP12 blowing the heads off everything in sight.
This story is rated NMG, for Needs More Gore.
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Darkened Angel Vice Captain
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:34 pm
beowulf rips grendel's arm out of its socket and decapitaes grendel's mother with a giant's sword all after the two creatures went on a killing spree.
how much more gore do you need?
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:48 pm
I want to know how he held his breath for six hours. That's a skill I wanna know.
Though the dude gets killed by being stabbed through the gut or something... Damnit! where's my translation? I can't read gaelic, but I found a damned good translation....
Hey cale, how many different versions of BWulf have you read?
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:54 pm
I read one or two translations.
I recall it being pretty good.
And really gory; killing sprees, dismemberments, decapitations, etc. The good stuff.
As I recall, he got killed by a dragon when he was an old man.
The one I heard, he goes out to kill a dragon that is ravaging his lands. His knights run out on him, and his shield gets melted in the fight, and then he got gored on one of the dragon's fangs or something. I think he managed to get the dragon, though.
And IMO, Grendel blew. Just...eh, boring.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:56 pm
two or three, including one by Tolkien I think, though I might have that confused with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:01 pm
I didn't think Tolkien translated that. I don't believe he knows Gaelic. I think he was into the scandinavian provences, but not gaelic itself. right place, wrong era.
I know what gets Beowulf to the dragon, I just cant remember exactly how beowulf himself dies.
Though the one book that i mentioned earlier, the flight of dragons, did provide an interesting twist on why Beowulf lost...
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:05 pm
Hold on let me check....
yeah I was wrong. the most recent version I read was translated by an Anne Schotter.
Tolkien translated Sir Gawain
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:10 pm
most recent translation for me is by Seamus Heaney. And some pics for you.  Ugly grendel, eh? the movie starring CL What the movie Beowulf looks like.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:12 pm
I like the first one best.
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Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:13 pm
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