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Magical Creature

Grendel's mother in #Beowulf (2007)
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#Bales2026FilmChallenge
#FilmMastodon
May3️⃣
Magical Creature

Grendel's mother in #Beowulf (2007)
#AngelinaJolie

C'est aujourd'hui la parution de la ré-édition format broché de #Beowulf : Traduction et commentaire de #Tolkien aux Éditions Christian #Bourgois ! 🐉

Plus de détails, référence et liens de commande sont dispo sur notre fiche biblio 👉 https://www.tolkiendil.com/tolkien/biblio/beowulf

Fun With Language: Literature in Translation

Earlier this week I finished Maria Dahvana Headley's translation of Beowulf. It's a story I know well, having read various translations of the poem over the last couple decades. I loved her translation. There's a mix of modern language and archaic formalities. It's a translation you can feel the fun she had in writing it. In undergrad, I majored in Linguistics. Between high school and college, I studied five years of French, four years of Russian, and two years of Japanese. I'm absolute […]

https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/04/14/fun-with-language-literature-in-translation/

Fun With Language: Literature in Translation

Earlier this week I finished Maria Dahvana Headley’s translation of Beowulf. It’s a story I know well, having read various translations of the poem over the last couple decades. I loved…

Alex Keane

Finished Maria Dahvana Headley's translation of Beowulf tonight. It scratches an itch for me in being a translation that tries to understand what the text tried to be to its original audience and to translate that to the new audience. Here, we have the boasting translated into a frat-boy-esque narration that totally works.

(My favorite translation of Eugene Onegin is the Hofstadter one with little translation puns thrown in here and there.)

#Bookstodon #Translation #Beowulf

Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #Beowulf #AlanRitchson #Fantasy 19 Years Later, Alan Ritchson’s Forgotten Fantasy Gem Is Officially Dominating on U.S. Streaming http://dlvr.it/TRg7pG

« Beowulfs Sieg über Grendel », 1890

by Hermann Vogel (German artist, 1854-1921)
Engraving from "Deutsche Heldensagen" (German Heroic Sagas), Gustav Schalk, Neufeld & Henius, Berlin, 1891

#vintagefantasyart #fantasyart #fantasyillustration #HermannVogel #beowulf #grendel #anglosaxonmythology

Legacy of the Geats: How the Memory of Beowulf’s Tribe Survives in Modern Sweden - Medievalists.net

Explore how the memory of the Geats—Beowulf’s tribe—survives in the language, place names, and landscape of modern Sweden.

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