Beowulf - Seamus Heaney: Part 2 of 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2024
- Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney's new translation of Beowulf comes to life in this gripping audio. Heaney's performance reminds us that Beowulf, written near the turn of another millennium, was intended to be heard not read.
Composed toward the end of the first millennium of our era, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures of Beowulf, a Scandinavian hero who saves the Danes from the seemingly invincible monster Grendel and, later, from Grendel's mother. He then returns to his own country and lives to old age before dying in a vivid fight against a dragon. - HighBridge Audio
Bookmarks :
Start is at 1492
Another Celebration at Heorot : 4:44
Skip from 1686 to 1787
Beowulf returns home : 7:02
Skip from 1924 to 1963
The Dragon Wakes : 27:17
Skip from 2344 to 2417
Skip from 2425 to 2509 (Beowulf Attacks the Dragon)
Beowulf's funeral : 54:45
Skip from 2936 to 2999
Welcome!
Laurence Ratté thank you!
I love u
Oh ur awesome
HERO STRIKeS AGAIN!
This starts on line 1492, in case anyone needs to know.
Glad I could help! ^_^
YOU THE REAL MVP
THANK YOU SO MUCH
OMG THANK YOU
Real MVP
I thought this was going to be a lot more difficult to read, but listening to it and following along helped so much!
ugh why does it skip at random points agH
*tHROWS BOOK ACROSS THE ROOM*
Erik Drake: The Seamus Heaney version unfortunately comes only in Abridged form.
I'm reading a Seamus Heaney version and the audio even skips a lot of the one I am reading.
@@isabelh1152 I actually have the book here with this version and I'm thrown tf off. He'll skip like three pages.
Glad I’m not the only one lol
I wish it was the unabridged text... I'm listening and reading at the same time and this version skips the best parts :/
Which version do you think is best?
I don't know what I would do without this! I put the speed on 2 and got the whole book read in about an hour and a half! which is nice because I have a projects due on this in 4 days...
The monster fighting is seriously cool, but what surprised me is how fascinated I got by the incredibly vivid depiction of their society to the point where I was enjoying it more than the action. I adored the descriptions of the tribes, their relations, traditions, worries, feuds, it's an absolute jewel of historical record.
Looking at pictures of the Sutton
AP English would be fun they said.
It’s still fun 🙃🙃🙃🙃
and they were right. cuz beowulf is awesome
Patrick Beattie AP? I’m just doing normal 9th grade work😫😭
Patrick Beattie I read this for fun in the summer before sixth grade.
It is fun!
Totally enjoyed this. I love that the vocabulary was so accessible to a modern english speaker. It allowed me to appreciate the emotions and visualize the scenes so well. And also loved the reader's performance, just right in tone and dramatic feeling. Thank you for publsihing this video!! The
Really appreciate Beowulf retelling the story I just finished listening to.
bro fr lol
During Beowulf's last speech, I slowed it down to 0.5. It really sounded like he was dying.
Wow, spoiler alert
@@ahmedtwam560 dude it's been out for over a thousand years. If you haven't heard or read it you were never going.
@@ahmedtwam560 speaks in jest i feel.
Spoiler Alert much!
For anyone reading the version shown at the beginning of the video, the black cover with a sword, here are the moments the video skips and starts 14ish minutes in. There’s a few before this but, but here's most of them.
14:20 line 1963
25:05 line 2164
35:39 line 2417
36:14 line 2510
41:07 line 2631
41:35 line 2646
47:16 line 2743
49:05 line 2779
52:00 line 2830
52:25 line 2843
53:40 line 2873
56:58 line 2933
57:08 line 2999
1:00:43 line 3076
its mostly the history part i think
I've always liked Beowulf. Had never read the Heaney translation, and this has been a treat. Very lucid and rhythmic.
If you get frustrated by it skipping around, just put on English subtitles. Follow along with the subtitles and then just put it on however speed you want. That helped me in the end.
How is he skipping the difficult parts and he's the one who translated it. :l
they're reading an abridged version of heaney's translation so it is shorter
This helps a lot! Its a shame that some parts are different from my edition I'm reading but it's still helps a lot. Also, THIS STORY IS AMAZING!!! I LOVE IT!
BEWARE! If you are following along with the Seamus Heaney text, you will find some lines missing and others with slightly different wording!
bro literally has broken more swords than I have broken condoms
your comment made me guffaw, dude!
his ridge marked rod rode the whale road clad in closest condom.
No respect for sacred stories. I hate my god-damned generation.
We read Beowulf in my graduate lit course--this is my favorite translation.
This is very enjoyable. Reading this poem can be a daunting task, but this helps very much.
Set the speed to 1.5 makes it more bearable. Although his voice is silky smooth.
I just set the speed to 1.5 cause I have a paper in a day and a half lol
4:00 just after line 1590, jumps to somewhere strange. 22:44 end of para just b4 line 2120. 35:40 approx line 2417 57:34 line 3006
after line 1590 it jumps to line 1626
15 minutes before class starts. “Fuck don’t have time to read it. Let’s listen to the video”
Fuck me
Well that's 3 hours of my life I'm never going to get back.
why he not read ALL the words HE translated?!?!
This honestly saved me
26:55 is line 2194 in "Norton Anthology of English Literature Ninth Edition" is anyone needs it
If you get lost when it skips lines, just use Ctrl + F and enter a phrase you hear to get back on track
Thank you
THANK YOU!! THIS IS AWESOME!!
The Sean Dafny comments here are what is wrong with the world today. Incomprehensible utterances that are so sad to read. The world is old.
27:16 (The Dragon Wakes: Line 2200)
Thanks
I should have read this earlier🤦
Thank you man your a lifesaver
Personal bookmark: 26:19
Beowulf returned home, told story of his adventures, was rewarded with jeweled sword and also land. Dragon is about to awake
The first time I finished Beowulf I cried ngl I read it in Hawaii
Beautifully read
I love this poem so much
Why are so many people listening to this while reading? Read first, then listen to review it if you are doing this for school. And stop complaining, you spineless cubs. This is one of the most epic stories ever written. Be glad you are reading this instead of the scarlet letter or other boring crap.
CyberGeek some of us read both and some people can’t read it and stay focused
Spineless cubs haha love it! The entitlement of some is mind-blowing.
Bookmark 7:09 Line 1800 from Seamus Heaney Translation
I LOVE YOUUUUUUU
thank you.
Beautiful.
Bookmark: 18:12 “Think how the Heathobards will be bound to feel,” - Seamus Heaney New Translation
Listen to this 3 times now and still only vaguely understand it🙈
Chili Pie
Now read it in the old English....
Find Classical Stuff You Need to Know. They have a podcast on Beowulf that’s great.
Is that picture from Skyrim?
Skyrim is based off Beowulf
Yep, the thumbnail is a Skyrim screenshot. Looks like my house in-game lol
@@beefysaurus Is it really? I had noticed some similarities, but I didn't know it was based off of it
@@sylversquirrel4703 I was told it was similarly based on Beowulf. The main similarity is the Anglo-Saxon culture.
36:14 is line 2510 [Beowulf Attacks the Dragon]
All of the digressions are skipped. :(
Beautifully read 🌹🔥
SKYRIM BELONGS TO THE NORDS!!! (D:
Wake up
For everyone stuck on pg 109 line 1569 it jumps to pg 112 line 1634
I'm not sure why 2 people would use this comment feature for their toxic argument. First, even if "Sean Dafny" uses "black" vernacular, that doesn't make him (or her) black. And, "Marcus Segura" can have an avatar of Jesus holding a sheep, but that doesn't make him (or her) peace-loving. Both of you are internet trolls who have hijacked this comment area. A great poet of the 20th/21st century reads medieval literature and (so far) we get free access to the reading. I wish you could appreciate it
Scylla Charybdis well said.
The Final Battle
36:39
49:17
1:06:23
Much easier to listen to than to read
It is a performance piece.
27:15 Line: 2200 Page: 149 3rd day Curriculum: My Father's World
It's a troll. It will only go away if you ignore it. Don't feed it.
Holt page 33: 36:38 - 42:21
49:19 - after the battle
1:06:24 (ending eulogy)
So I'm trying to figure out why this version has less story than the one in the Norton Anthology Volume A. Which is more correct?
it's an abbridged version
The written version will have it all - the audiobook skips over some of the text.
I listened to this as I played skyrim
megamanthehitman why?
Finding Beowulf...
he skipped so much t.t
Dear, Person who is reading
For future reference don't skip anything because it is just annoying for the person trying to read and listen at the same time. It then becomes a game of pause, catch up to where you start next (repeat). DX DX DX
I'd like to point out that the person reading this is the guy that translated the Epic into modern English
Dear Josh, you might as well have said thank you
The person reading this is dead. Just a Nobel prize winning author who translated this from Olde English most of us have no chance of deciphering but nevermind all that I'm sure you were inconvenienced terribly. Future reference though....
Yo why is a skyrim house the background?
at the beginning it said translated and preformed by seamus heaney....that wouldn't be the same person would it? how did you get this? and for free?
Damn my shoes is untied...
3:12 an ancient sword from the "Days of the Giants".
Have so enjoyed this. Truly wish I hadn't scanned the comments as . . . I suppose to be expected . . . there is utter illiterate, yet even educated yet bitter comments in regard to a work that deserves neither. The negativism reflects the lack of education of youth as to the . . . very long long history of the world and men. Sad, that great works of age from the literary world can't be held off limits to the human political BS of today. "Anxiety and Gloom confused his brain". Sad.
preach it bro, but tottally get used to it
Name of the opening song?
This story was written by the finger of God
Since covid vaccines, I can listen to 13 minutes of this and hear words but not be able to build a picture of the story in my mind. It is like artificial intelligence is inside my head programming the responses but it lacks culture to build the picture of a story
Comment section... Always makes me giggle
kiitos, anyhow
D: some parts jump...
13:14
personal bookmark
Bookmarks:
4:04
36:12
The picture is Skyrim lol
Is this reading an abridged version of the full text of his translation? I demand a refund! PS: Wish I had this when I was in HS.
Love beowulf
This is the comment section, which is a forum. I'm sure you know the meaning of "forum" is a public space often used for people to voice their opinions. You post something here, it becomes everyone's business. As long as it remains where people can see it, it's open season. You took that risk when you decided to post on the internet. Racist text in all caps is kind of hard to ignore, which reminds me, capslock can be found in the upper left of your keyboard, you may want to toggle it off.
Bookmark 13:17 line 1904
Bookmark: 10:56
33:09 bookmark for line 2300
Sean Dafny is clearly a genius. And his comments are high art in their own right. His wrong about Beowulf though.
Great story! Some parts of the story are skipped over though.
45:31 line 2710
51:44 bookmark, line 2820
Why does he skip around so much
28:31 end of part 2
Not interesed in this garbage language on your site of comments, People who can't exspress there dislikes in a cival langauge should be educated and learn to talk decently. Seamus Heaney has gone to rest and doesn't need this garbage thrown at him.
2510 is at 36:55
13:17 1904 book mark
Line 2636 is 41:33
girl WHAT is he talking about.....
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT
25:07 pg 69
11:43 is the end of line 1880
My absolute fav scottish person ik
i mean irish
47:48 line 2750
Geats is not pronounced "geets". It's actually "gey-ots".
28:00 Dragon
Breeze home
End of line 2344: 35:40
26:38 is line 2190