I am SO HUMILIATED! Never could type in a URL. But seriously folks, this is the triumph of the EfH. When Wilbur and Davis and Hecht all told me to finish the job, Alan learned Anglo Saxon, worked 11 hours a day for 11 months, and gave us not Beowulf's Greatest Hits (my ambition), but the entire epic. My schoolboy memory was that it was a flawed poem, brilliant passages interspersed with meaningless, flaccid digressions. Having EDITED Alan, I now realize that's not the case; and if the English peoples have a great epic, it's this one, not Milton's. It is a thrill to know that millions of kids will be reading our version and that little David is going up against the Goliath of the Heaneywulf.
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