Beowulf wasn’t just a poem, it was a literary turf war. Oxford vs. Cambridge, identity vs. empire. Then Heaney rolls up in ’99, channels “thole,” and fuses Irish soul with Anglo-Saxon fire. He didn’t translate it, he resurrected it. 🛡️🔥
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