Beowulf: A New Translation (Paperback)

Maria Dahvana Headley

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Imprint:	MCD X Fsg Originals
Release date:	August 2020
Authors:	Maria Dahvana Headley
Dimensions:	191 x 127 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-374-11003-1
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Myth & legend told as fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Sagas Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Promotions
LSN:	0-374-11003-4
Barcode:	9780374110031

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Wed, 1 Jun 2022 | Review by: Tanya K.

Novelist Maria Dahvana Headley's new "translation" of Beowulf is serviceable and accessible/understandable to a modern audience, written with modern language and colloquialisms. I found some of the modern colloquialisms to be jarring and detracted from the narrative. I'm not sure I would walk up to King Hrothgar and address him as Bro! even if I was Prince Beowulf. Also "We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead" (line 19-20), and "Meanwhile, Beowulf gave zero shits" (line 1441), and the like - just no, not to my taste. I did find Headley's introduction particularly interesting, especially her perspective of Grendel's mother.

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