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http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critic...urrentPage=all
Thanks for link. Good article. So Heaney's version is 'Irish' in flavor. It was okay but I gave up. Beowulf is fundamentally Germanic and I prefer that it be translated that way. I may give Tolkien's version I try.
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