Beowulf question for Tim/Alan

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01-14-2009, 08:18 PM

Robin-Kemp Robin-Kemp is offline

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Beowulf question for Tim/Alan

Bumped from end of Chaucer thread...

I see that you and Alan wrote 2800 lines vs. the 3182 in Klaeber. I'm guessing that this is because you were able to say things more succinctly in the heavily-Germanic modern English that you used. Still, this seems like a LOT of compression! While I'm sure that creating an excellent poem took precedence over slavish line-counting, I'm just curious as to which factors contributed to this difference.

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Robin

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