Most people only see Beowulf as that super boring book they had to read in high school. I first heard it when I was thirteen. I went to this winter break poetry class at the local art school and one Friday the teacher set floor cushions in a circle around a "fire" (camp lantern) and did a dramatic reading/reciting of Beowulf. She'd spent the previous days explaining to us how the mixture of Christianity into a purely pagan tale showed the slow shift from the old ways to the new wave.
It made me love warrior tales, everything from Norse to Arthurian legends. the books always remind me of home.
to everyone else their just books
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