Beowulf or Bay at the Moon

[Magdalen]

Has anyone gotten into the new Seamus Heaney translation of Beowulf? I browsed it briefly; it has olde Englishe and a poetic form. The dry and dusty version I read was trans by David Wright and it is all translation and no poem.

[Magdalen]

I guess the answer is, "No!"

[Medievalist]

I don't like it. It's a good poem, but it's a wretched translation of Beowulf. It's riddled with errors, and he's stuck in stuff that's just not in the original.

[Magdalen]

Well Thank You!
I'll wait for it to show up at the library (the very bad and very good ones get there quickly) for any further perusal. And the not-Wright version that's worth a barter of two ducks?

[Medievalist]

There's a decent prose one by E. T. Donaldson and a plain but accurate one with facing page Old English/Anglo-Saxon one from Howell Chickering

[Magdalen]

Down pillows and blood sausage will follow, and Thanks again. G'nite.