1:37:56 Audio: "End of Section 9" In the Dover Thrift Edition it is the end of section 27. 1:42:07 End of section 28. 1:45:34 End of section 29. 1:51:12 End of section 30. 1:55:16 Audio: "End of Section 10" In the Dover Thrift Edition it is the end of section 31. 2:00:13 End of section 32. 2:04:07 End of section 33. 2:07:44 Audio: "End of Section 11" In the DTE it is the end of section 34.
@@ihavell5604 nope. This was written before English even existed. What we are hearing is just a translation. The rhythm of the original is lost therewith, although readings with subtitles exist if you look for them.
@@MrKbonezWow Thanks for the big scoop.. Beowulf of course was passed down as oral tradition. However this version is from a 13th century version of the story when English DID exist.
@@MrKbonez even if this is not the original text, a good translator still tries to maintain all its characteristics in their interpretation. Of course, not everything can be translated and some things will inevitably be lost in the process, but maintaining a sense of rhythm in a *poem*, which is litirally defined by the fact that it HAS rhythm, does not sound like something that can be omitted.
For anybody listening to this for a class-- do yourself a favor and read/listen to Seamus Heaney's translation. There are many translations of Beowulf and some are easier to read than others
@@zmhmusic If you're reading Beowulf for enjoyment or simply to understand the story then yeah, I'd recommend it. Heaney takes some artistic liberties in his translation, which in my opinion helps the poem's readability. However, if it's more accuracy to the original text that you're needing (i.e. for a university level academic paper) then there are other translations that might be better for that. At least that's what I understand from my undergrad research- I'm not an expert in Old English. Heaney's translation is worth a read either way
watch the 2007 adaptation a few times and then read it! the movie is very different than this epic poem, but the vocabulary and visuals are very similar and it helps with understanding the unfamiliar words that are present here, and helps to put everything together into an understandable story. I read the book in 2 days a couple years ago and it’s my favorite story to this day!
I like how Beowulf told stories in the movie, the speech of a warrior when he speaks is praise and honor. Every line in this epic can be spoken alive like that! Read that book to your kids like you're telling them of a great warrior, and you're in great company telling them
@@RustMonsterMilk If Beowulf existed at all, he was great not because he fought in wars, anyone can do that, but rather because he was willing to serve his people and others, buying with his own life their peace. That's what a hero (or heroine) does.
This book is actually fire, and this is coming from a person who is dyslexic and hates reading, at first I fucking hated it I spent an hour reading three pages in the beginning but then after reading 15 pages it became so much easier and it started to make sense and started to actually get good, I tried listening to the audio but it never helped I would definitely recommend just reading it and breaking it down after 15 pages trust me it really does help, also jot down notes in like a Google dock it really helped me and it started to piece things together, it also helped imagining this book like seven deadly sins or magi it made a lot more enjoyable.
Job 9 Then Job replied: 2 “Indeed, I know that this is true. But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God? 3 Though they wished to dispute with him, they could not answer him one time out of a thousand. 4 His wisdom is profound, his power is vast. Who has resisted him and come out unscathed? 5 He moves mountains without their knowing it and overturns them in his anger. 6 He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble. 7 He speaks to the sun and it does not shine; he seals off the light of the stars. 8 He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea. 9 He is the Maker of the Bear[a] and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south. 10 He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. 11 When he passes me, I cannot see him; when he goes by, I cannot perceive him. 12 If he snatches away, who can stop him? Who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’ 13 God does not restrain his anger; even the cohorts of Rahab cowered at his feet. 14 “How then can I dispute with him? How can I find words to argue with him? 15 Though I were innocent, I could not answer him; I could only plead with my Judge for mercy. 16 Even if I summoned him and he responded, I do not believe he would give me a hearing. 17 He would crush me with a storm and multiply my wounds for no reason. 18 He would not let me catch my breath but would overwhelm me with misery. 19 If it is a matter of strength, he is mighty! And if it is a matter of justice, who can challenge him[b]? 20 Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty. 21 “Although I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life. 22 It is all the same; that is why I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’ 23 When a scourge brings sudden death, he mocks the despair of the innocent. 24 When a land falls into the hands of the wicked, he blindfolds its judges. If it is not he, then who is it? 25 “My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy. 26 They skim past like boats of papyrus, like eagles swooping down on their prey. 27 If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression, and smile,’ 28 I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent. 29 Since I am already found guilty, why should I struggle in vain? 30 Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with cleansing powder, 31 you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me. 32 “He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court. 33 If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together, 34 someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more. 35 Then I would speak up without fear of him, but as it now stands with me, I cannot. Footnotes: Job 9:9 Or of Leo Job 9:19 See Septuagint; Hebrew me.
I get to my first day of school today, and apparently we were supposed to hv read this. We were told we had no work to do over the summer. Now everyone in my class needs to read this by Monday-
This is really cool how they managed to translate this to modern English while still apparently preserving or at least attempting to reproduce it as a poem. I have never heard a poem done in the style of Germanic/Norse epics, with the alliterative scheme. It's really cool.
They say, even if a lion could speak English we would not understand him, because his frame of reference is so removed from our own. Maybe this is what a lion would sound like if it spoke English, technically it makes sense but its incomprehensible.
XVIII A CUP she gave him, with kindly greeting and winsome words. Of wounden gold, she offered, to honor him, arm-jewels twain, corselet and rings, and of collars the noblest that ever I knew the earth around. Beowulf lov’d, these battle-weeds wear, a royal treasure, and richly thrive! Preserve thy strength, and these striplings here counsel in kindness: requital be mine. Hast done such deeds, that for days to come thou art famed among folk both far and near, so wide as washeth the wave of Ocean his windy walls. Through the ways of life prosper, O prince! I pray for thee rich possessions. To son of mine be helpful in deed and uphold his joys!
Huh? Why? It's in English ffs? Admittedly the guy is a woeful narrator, but Libravox narrators tend to have the same really nasal American accent and barely high school reading skills.
yeah its old english, i can understand each individual word, but strung together like this, my mind needs to work overtime to translate into modern english
Devin Sword if this was old English you wouldn’t even understand one word. This is modern English, it isn’t even Middle English. The whole thing is fully translated into modern English. What the fuck are you on about.
Wow that's hard to understand. I'm not a native speaker so I have to listen really hard to comprehend all that's going on, also there is a lot of descriptions so I'm really struggling with this book. But it still worth every minute. And thanks for the narration!
That's so funny. You have to translate Old English into Modern English. The language has changed drastically in over 1000 years. Different translators translate differently. Because this is public domain, I assume the translation that's being used is public domain. In other words, it's probably somewhat archaic besides being rather poetic. Young people today are so clueless.
Read the Book its A great Story. Unless you have poor vocabulary especially in old english it isnt Rocket Science whatever its a cool Book to.bad laymen cannot understand
Chapter 27 For over their ale men also told that of these folk-horrors fewer she wrought, onslaughts of evil, after she went, gold-decked bride, to the brave young prince, atheling haughty, and Offa’s hall o’er the fallow flood at her father’s bidding safely sought, where since she prospered, royal, throned, rich in goods, fain of the fair life fate had sent her, and leal in love to the lord of warriors. He, of all heroes I heard of ever from sea to sea, of the sons of earth, most excellent seemed. Hence Offa was praised for his fighting and feeing by far-off men, the spear-bold warrior; wisely he ruled over his empire. Eomer woke to him, help of heroes, Hemming’s kinsman, Grandson of Garmund, grim in war.
Thank you uploader for such a classic. Future listeners, nothing against the reader, he's going to bore you. He puts emphasis on words of his lacking vocabulary, which takes away from the flow of the story. Highly suggest finding a different reading.
Hidden in these words are truth speaking spirit to mind, listen well and learn what's been hidden from you. The historic nature of this work can show you the battle of man versus a different bloodline that was on the brim of extinction, the serpent, the dragon, the sea monsters, ect. Who knows what the men of renown have seen in their times of ancient past? Love this type of content because their mind hasn't been corrupted and jaded from institutional mouths of men.
There was a story of two alphas Both wanted to reign One loved his brother and agreed they'd split Why compete until someone fell off, or they both felled each other One was dumb and became a beggar He saw what was good, and what wasn't, which his brother also did He wandered to end of the earth
For overpopulation the problem is there's no good way to go for those who want, 65 prevent of this planet has been waiting all their life to go, they're forced to be here, and we overpopulate because it means you get 60 percent of someone else's income in child $upport, kids mean money and multiple partners and children Don't make available a fentanyl euthanasia drink by the 10,000 gallon vat and the 65 percent of the planet that world say thanks won't get to go yet, but might even replicate after some bad one night stands, and you won't more than double available resources, or you will keep 1M in insurance and state aid money never paid out, and social security they paid into, to the end you create some cool jobs for everyone and dispensaries and no more crime, and everyone in the world that remains will be people that actually want to be here without botch job suicide attempts for a worse existence, and everyone in the world would have two houses, two cars, an oil supplies to last the planet, and they could have a cow, with ice cream on top, unless they eat the cow, then they need another one Just saying.. Or get an ass graft on your face when they keep trying and you get black fungus necrotizing your facial tissue, why get a facial? They keep trying Make euthanasia
1/3 off the world population starving may reach 2/3. Dump ocean water into dry rivers with ocean fish, have an ocean river, desal at farms, steam distiller at the kitchen sink, disinfected and salt free Collect America's lawn mower clippings for more cattle, new jobs. Instead we export corn and beef and have a storage and import meat from other countries They tried to make viruses to eliminate half the world, they are unsuccessful, wait till a mobster has to get an ass graft on his face from some black fungus sprayed, unreal. 65 percent of the world would say thanks for a synthetic opioid euthanasia drink by the 10,000 gallon vat, I could have done agenda 21 better 8 years ago If you won't be compassionate to the majority, nor will the the ruling minority to all. To them it is a matter of choice: Theirs Soon your cities will be without water, unless you hire people for US currency which costs the same to print as unemployment without a future and pump desalinated water from the ocean into river systems we're not being drawn to the sun, There's two black holes on the surface, whatever was gravitationally drawn to the core went there, and the overall gravity of the sun increased but it got hotter but we're moving away and angry solar flares and CMEs are coming after us for leavingg Heat pushes clouds causing flooding on other parts of this planet while coronal mass ejection and solar flares from magnetic connections from the sun to the earth are increasing. One day maybe it will arc weld this iron ball if we don't cross elliptical orbit line with the moon. Tell NASA about the moon and a year and a half later they make Moonfall. They should make a euthanasia for everyone who wants to go, or be stuck to endure the future even if you don't want to be here at all??? With the moon it'd be a tsunami one way and a volcano the other, the future of our relationship with the sun is a different issue However, 65 percent of the planet would take a synthetic opioid drink by the 10,000 gallon vat and say thanks, 1/3 off the world is starving to death, 5 percent need bones they can't or don't want to get replaced, 5 percent need organs they can't or don't want to get replaced, 5 percent are terminally ill 5 percent chronic pain, 5-10 percent never wanted to be here anyway, and everyone else will have a peaceful way to go when they want. There's no good way to go, some are 18 and 0 and going through death and not actually dying is not fun, some attempts are violent to go through. Instead of making a euthanasia available to everyone who wants to go they kill .08 percent of the world population in two years. Everyone was the target. I would have helped the 65 percent go 8 yrs ago. They're getting a dime instead of a dollar in creating good There needs to be a peaceful easy way for everyone when they want to go. Guy saves 1M in state aid, paid 600k in social security, doesn't have to die every day, just gets to leave before suffering. The guy with the kids gets 800 k from Uncle Sam in life insurance he never signed up for and Uncle Sam keeps the other 800k. Free euthanasia. Cut inflation by more than half, more than doubled available resources. Have a job by a company which pays all the taxes and picks up grass clippings M-S to take it to fields now with cows on it, 4x your US cattle with lawn mower clippings from every years, save 2500 on property taxes and make sure your clippings are out in your neighborhood on Tuesdays Pump desalinated water from ocean wave current into river systems ASAP. It costs the same to print unemployment and section 8 as it fits a job with a paycheck that won't even take your house away Here's your check if you love your neighbors and don't want to leave your free housing, and here's your bigger check if you want to rent on the private market More confusing paint corporations pay all the taxes making useful cool jobs like a mint company your paper actually goes somewhere and a quarter turns back into a dollar Dig out 10 ' of river bed and cast and set two 10' pipelines to being Atlantic ocean water to every house, use steam distiller for salt free disinfected water at the kitchen sink, dump waste water into sealed pipelines. It took a turn 2 years to dig out 10' of riverbed, everyone could be back to work working in every town and we'd be at with new infrastructure. Don't put salt in your water, have more salt for more roads in the winter. Send salt water straight to homes, they'll use a distiller for their few gallons of driving and cooking water and they're off toilet to tap loop. Use electrolysis for energy from salt water. At the very least, feed rivers with desal water immediately to quickly overcome drought shortages, no problem Make a grass and corn crop that grows in ocean water hybrid with say, oceanic grass root structures, best genetic corn crop growing in salt water in Texas and Arizona while you solar desalinate more oxygen and hydrogen into the air in a 24/7/365 grow season with ocean water and no weeds growing in salt water crops or lawns, fill your swimming pool with ocean water and water your lawn with salt water, don't put salt in your what salt water put it in the roads, use a small steam distiller made of glass and stainless to get disinfected and salt water free water for cooking and drinking, maybe an ocean let for your pool, were have to deal with ocean water rise, how about a Dolphin? Make more indoor fish farms, clean fish into a flash freezer, people eat fish, kid makes 90 k a year running fishing equipment not $9 an hour people eat well People could be cremated visible to the public and the smoke can be required in a gallon of water and the ashes and cement combined and people can be made into a concrete cast or flower pot. Otherwise, if they get cremated, without a filter, or dissolved in alkyld they go down a drain? And they had that place giving fake ashes and selling bodies Maybe you could make a wireless Tesla bridge (like when you touch a Tesla ball and the current comes towards you, though you are in the millivolts) to draw CMEs from the sun to say, Mars, maybe you'll stop the earth from frying
Love this as a young man in literature class later I bought the book it was in a poem form as this was later I am not sure which comic book company it was D C or Marvel put out a comic it did not stay out long but what there was of it I loved I am a simple man and normally I don’t understand any of these types of books but this I do love it 👍up to those who put this out
Truth, I have a nice interest with readings like this and the O.E. worlds as well as the Anglo-Saxon era which Beowulf is set. Not much understanding but a bit of interest
I mean, that's been apparent for at least 20 years. I once tried to read my nephew and niece The Hobbit and they kept apologizing and saying they would be good for their mother. I was confused and devastated 😂😂😂
Do you know what a kenning is? Appreciate a lot of archaic alliteration all at a pace swift? Honestly, if you read below your grade level (or even on-level) Beowulf (and Canterbury Tales for that matter) are probably going to be extremely difficult for you to keep up with. Unless you just really want to learn this stuff on your own, get a Spark or Cliff Notes.
There are two types of commenters: 1. People genuinely interested in hearing an epic ancient story 2. Pissed off high-school kids complaining about English class
have you ever had a dream that, that, um, that you had, uh, that you had to, you could, you do, you wit, you wa, you could do so, you do you could, you want, you wanted him to do you so much you could do anything
I get why people are having difficulty. It would help if Tad was more dramatic. Monotone throughout doesn't help those with no grasp of kennings, alliteration, poetry, and poor comprehension of their own modern English language get this story. All that said, if you're one of these bored students who will never appreciate this stuff anyway, the video ain't a shortcut. Just get the damn Cliff Notes and take your 70% on the final exam. You don't need this to sell paint or work at Walmart. Classics are wasted on the unwilling.
Love Beowulf the Book the person who made the movie should be locked up and put the actual cool story i read this Book so many times in .middle school. Should have taken a couple copies no one read anyway .
Loved this book!
My favorite part- 0:00
Brainpower Hill mine is 2:46:12
Rafael Sumano me too
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@@rafaelsumano is this because you sat through whole book?.
You are weak
You will never know how great a thing you are doing by reading this for others and allowing it to be free up there public. Keep up the good work
1:37:56 Audio: "End of Section 9" In the Dover Thrift Edition it is the end of section 27.
1:42:07 End of section 28.
1:45:34 End of section 29.
1:51:12 End of section 30.
1:55:16 Audio: "End of Section 10" In the Dover Thrift Edition it is the end of section 31.
2:00:13 End of section 32.
2:04:07 End of section 33.
2:07:44 Audio: "End of Section 11" In the DTE it is the end of section 34.
I tried to read this and couldn’t understand, so I tried to listen to it... I still don’t understand
The guy reading is doing so in real time. He should have practiced first. If the narrator had any rhythm it would be easier to understand I think.
@@ihavell5604 nope. This was written before English even existed. What we are hearing is just a translation. The rhythm of the original is lost therewith, although readings with subtitles exist if you look for them.
@@MrKbonezWow Thanks for the big scoop.. Beowulf of course was passed down as oral tradition. However this version is from a 13th century version of the story when English DID exist.
Hence. It being written down
@@MrKbonez even if this is not the original text, a good translator still tries to maintain all its characteristics in their interpretation. Of course, not everything can be translated and some things will inevitably be lost in the process, but maintaining a sense of rhythm in a *poem*, which is litirally defined by the fact that it HAS rhythm, does not sound like something that can be omitted.
0:22 Prologue
3:06 Chapter 1
6:14 Chapter 2
10:00 Section 2
10:16 Chapter 3
For anybody listening to this for a class-- do yourself a favor and read/listen to Seamus Heaney's translation. There are many translations of Beowulf and some are easier to read than others
Is it really that good? I’ve been wondering about it for a while
@@zmhmusic If you're reading Beowulf for enjoyment or simply to understand the story then yeah, I'd recommend it. Heaney takes some artistic liberties in his translation, which in my opinion helps the poem's readability. However, if it's more accuracy to the original text that you're needing (i.e. for a university level academic paper) then there are other translations that might be better for that. At least that's what I understand from my undergrad research- I'm not an expert in Old English. Heaney's translation is worth a read either way
Can confirm it is an accessible and pithy translation. Also has some pretty sick cover art for a paperback.
I am ✨confused ✨
Meeee tooooo
There's unironically no saxon story more simple than Beowulf other than the Heliand.
I read this two years ago and watched the movie and I feel.. ✨ the same✨😂😂
watch the 2007 adaptation a few times and then read it! the movie is very different than this epic poem, but the vocabulary and visuals are very similar and it helps with understanding the unfamiliar words that are present here, and helps to put everything together into an understandable story. I read the book in 2 days a couple years ago and it’s my favorite story to this day!
I like how Beowulf told stories in the movie, the speech of a warrior when he speaks is praise and honor. Every line in this epic can be spoken alive like that! Read that book to your kids like you're telling them of a great warrior, and you're in great company telling them
War does not make one great.
Depends on what your fighting for can war make one great in the eyes of others.
@@RustMonsterMilk If Beowulf existed at all, he was great not because he fought in wars, anyone can do that, but rather because he was willing to serve his people and others, buying with his own life their peace. That's what a hero (or heroine) does.
@@JamesRDavenport Okay, take your pills bud. It was a Star Wars quote.
This book is actually fire, and this is coming from a person who is dyslexic and hates reading, at first I fucking hated it I spent an hour reading three pages in the beginning but then after reading 15 pages it became so much easier and it started to make sense and started to actually get good, I tried listening to the audio but it never helped I would definitely recommend just reading it and breaking it down after 15 pages trust me it really does help, also jot down notes in like a Google dock it really helped me and it started to piece things together, it also helped imagining this book like seven deadly sins or magi it made a lot more enjoyable.
glad you’re enjoying it im currently confused and would rather do anything else but read this
Honestly, I hate English class.
Same
baby deku
Same
I wish I got to read this in English class, I got stuck having to research shitty Shakespeare plays
haha same now im here trying to do my homework and still don’t understand 😒😒
Job
9 Then Job replied:
2
“Indeed, I know that this is true.
But how can mere mortals prove their innocence before God?
3
Though they wished to dispute with him,
they could not answer him one time out of a thousand.
4
His wisdom is profound, his power is vast.
Who has resisted him and come out unscathed?
5
He moves mountains without their knowing it
and overturns them in his anger.
6
He shakes the earth from its place
and makes its pillars tremble.
7
He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;
he seals off the light of the stars.
8
He alone stretches out the heavens
and treads on the waves of the sea.
9
He is the Maker of the Bear[a] and Orion,
the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.
10
He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed,
miracles that cannot be counted.
11
When he passes me, I cannot see him;
when he goes by, I cannot perceive him.
12
If he snatches away, who can stop him?
Who can say to him, ‘What are you doing?’
13
God does not restrain his anger;
even the cohorts of Rahab cowered at his feet.
14
“How then can I dispute with him?
How can I find words to argue with him?
15
Though I were innocent, I could not answer him;
I could only plead with my Judge for mercy.
16
Even if I summoned him and he responded,
I do not believe he would give me a hearing.
17
He would crush me with a storm
and multiply my wounds for no reason.
18
He would not let me catch my breath
but would overwhelm me with misery.
19
If it is a matter of strength, he is mighty!
And if it is a matter of justice, who can challenge him[b]?
20
Even if I were innocent, my mouth would condemn me;
if I were blameless, it would pronounce me guilty.
21
“Although I am blameless,
I have no concern for myself;
I despise my own life.
22
It is all the same; that is why I say,
‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23
When a scourge brings sudden death,
he mocks the despair of the innocent.
24
When a land falls into the hands of the wicked,
he blindfolds its judges.
If it is not he, then who is it?
25
“My days are swifter than a runner;
they fly away without a glimpse of joy.
26
They skim past like boats of papyrus,
like eagles swooping down on their prey.
27
If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
I will change my expression, and smile,’
28
I still dread all my sufferings,
for I know you will not hold me innocent.
29
Since I am already found guilty,
why should I struggle in vain?
30
Even if I washed myself with soap
and my hands with cleansing powder,
31
you would plunge me into a slime pit
so that even my clothes would detest me.
32
“He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him,
that we might confront each other in court.
33
If only there were someone to mediate between us,
someone to bring us together,
34
someone to remove God’s rod from me,
so that his terror would frighten me no more.
35
Then I would speak up without fear of him,
but as it now stands with me, I cannot.
Footnotes:
Job 9:9 Or of Leo
Job 9:19 See Septuagint; Hebrew me.
Very good...!
ch 1- 3:07
Bless
Did all these highschool students comment their progress as a bookmark here.
Then blazed forth light. ’Twas bright within
as when from the sky there shines unclouded
heaven’s candle.
I wonder how many more of these ancient Germanic poems are hidden in old libraries.
“Indeed, I know that this is true. it's true.
17:30
I get to my first day of school today, and apparently we were supposed to hv read this. We were told we had no work to do over the summer. Now everyone in my class needs to read this by Monday-
This is really cool how they managed to translate this to modern English while still apparently preserving or at least attempting to reproduce it as a poem. I have never heard a poem done in the style of Germanic/Norse epics, with the alliterative scheme. It's really cool.
yeah so in english Right now and had to READ it so I wanted to find an audio book. thank you for this
Yeah i cant understand whats going on here
36:46 chapter 11
53:30 chapter 16
They say, even if a lion could speak English we would not understand him, because his frame of reference is so removed from our own. Maybe this is what a lion would sound like if it spoke English, technically it makes sense but its incomprehensible.
XVIII
A CUP she gave him, with kindly greeting
and winsome words. Of wounden gold,
she offered, to honor him, arm-jewels twain,
corselet and rings, and of collars the noblest
that ever I knew the earth around.
Beowulf lov’d, these battle-weeds wear,
a royal treasure, and richly thrive!
Preserve thy strength, and these striplings here
counsel in kindness: requital be mine.
Hast done such deeds, that for days to come
thou art famed among folk both far and near,
so wide as washeth the wave of Ocean
his windy walls. Through the ways of life
prosper, O prince! I pray for thee
rich possessions. To son of mine
be helpful in deed and uphold his joys!
Fantastic! Well read, thank you so much for this wonderful gift❤️
i realy wanna listen to this, but its stressing my linguistic skills to the max. so far, i understand about 85% of it
Huh? Why? It's in English ffs? Admittedly the guy is a woeful narrator, but Libravox narrators tend to have the same really nasal American accent and barely high school reading skills.
yeah its old english, i can understand each individual word, but strung together like this, my mind needs to work overtime to translate into modern english
Devin Sword if this was old English you wouldn’t even understand one word. This is modern English, it isn’t even Middle English. The whole thing is fully translated into modern English. What the fuck are you on about.
@@devinsword5777 Narrate it better if you dare critique your own work show your resolve.
@@johnathanb2114 ... not critiquing anything other then my own lack of linguistic skill dude. chill.
1:20:18 Chapter 23
1:34:09 Chapter 26
It's great to have these treasures online!
So we’re all here for the same reason huh?
Wow that's hard to understand.
I'm not a native speaker so I have to listen really hard to comprehend all that's going on, also there is a lot of descriptions so I'm really struggling with this book.
But it still worth every minute.
And thanks for the narration!
I'm a native speaker and I'm encountering the same problem! This is so tough to go through 😔
Anybody else confused as fuck because the text they have from there assignments doesn't match up to this
That's so funny. You have to translate Old English into Modern English. The language has changed drastically in over 1000 years. Different translators translate differently. Because this is public domain, I assume the translation that's being used is public domain. In other words, it's probably somewhat archaic besides being rather poetic. Young people today are so clueless.
I didn't realise how poetic it was. I should have listened or read this much sooner. Shame on me.
I'm trying really hard to like and visualize this epic but I think my phone addiction killed my attention span to understand this fully 😞
Same😭
Read the Book its A great Story. Unless you have poor vocabulary especially in old english it isnt Rocket Science whatever its a cool Book to.bad laymen cannot understand
It’s hard to understand
Chapter 27
For over their ale men also told
that of these folk-horrors fewer she wrought,
onslaughts of evil, after she went,
gold-decked bride, to the brave young prince,
atheling haughty, and Offa’s hall
o’er the fallow flood at her father’s bidding
safely sought, where since she prospered,
royal, throned, rich in goods,
fain of the fair life fate had sent her,
and leal in love to the lord of warriors.
He, of all heroes I heard of ever
from sea to sea, of the sons of earth,
most excellent seemed. Hence Offa was praised
for his fighting and feeing by far-off men,
the spear-bold warrior; wisely he ruled
over his empire. Eomer woke to him,
help of heroes, Hemming’s kinsman,
Grandson of Garmund, grim in war.
Yeah, bravo no doubt a prolific man-o-war.
Thank you uploader for such a classic. Future listeners, nothing against the reader, he's going to bore you. He puts emphasis on words of his lacking vocabulary, which takes away from the flow of the story. Highly suggest finding a different reading.
99% of the comments:
WHy aM I reAdIng ThiS If I doN't UndeStAnD it!
Honestly, I am trying not to fall asleep
39:24
Hidden in these words are truth speaking spirit to mind, listen well and learn what's been hidden from you. The historic nature of this work can show you the battle of man versus a different bloodline that was on the brim of extinction, the serpent, the dragon, the sea monsters, ect. Who knows what the men of renown have seen in their times of ancient past? Love this type of content because their mind hasn't been corrupted and jaded from institutional mouths of men.
43:28
wha
There was a story of two alphas
Both wanted to reign
One loved his brother and agreed they'd split
Why compete until someone fell off, or they both felled each other
One was dumb and became a beggar
He saw what was good, and what wasn't, which his brother also did
He wandered to end of the earth
For overpopulation the problem is there's no good way to go for those who want, 65 prevent of this planet has been waiting all their life to go, they're forced to be here, and we overpopulate because it means you get 60 percent of someone else's income in child $upport, kids mean money and multiple partners and children
Don't make available a fentanyl euthanasia drink by the 10,000 gallon vat and the 65 percent of the planet that world say thanks won't get to go yet, but might even replicate after some bad one night stands, and you won't more than double available resources, or you will keep 1M in insurance and state aid money never paid out, and social security they paid into, to the end you create some cool jobs for everyone and dispensaries and no more crime, and everyone in the world that remains will be people that actually want to be here without botch job suicide attempts for a worse existence, and everyone in the world would have two houses, two cars, an oil supplies to last the planet, and they could have a cow, with ice cream on top, unless they eat the cow, then they need another one
Just saying..
Or get an ass graft on your face when they keep trying and you get black fungus necrotizing your facial tissue, why get a facial? They keep trying
Make euthanasia
1/3 off the world population starving may reach 2/3. Dump ocean water into dry rivers with ocean fish, have an ocean river, desal at farms, steam distiller at the kitchen sink, disinfected and salt free
Collect America's lawn mower clippings for more cattle, new jobs. Instead we export corn and beef and have a storage and import meat from other countries
They tried to make viruses to eliminate half the world, they are unsuccessful, wait till a mobster has to get an ass graft on his face from some black fungus sprayed, unreal. 65 percent of the world would say thanks for a synthetic opioid euthanasia drink by the 10,000 gallon vat, I could have done agenda 21 better 8 years ago
If you won't be compassionate to the majority, nor will the the ruling minority to all. To them it is a matter of choice: Theirs
Soon your cities will be without water, unless you hire people for US currency which costs the same to print as unemployment without a future and pump desalinated water from the ocean into river systems
we're not being drawn to the sun,
There's two black holes on the surface, whatever was gravitationally drawn to the core went there, and the overall gravity of the sun increased but it got hotter but we're moving away and angry solar flares and CMEs are coming after us for leavingg
Heat pushes clouds causing flooding on other parts of this planet while coronal mass ejection and solar flares from magnetic connections from the sun to the earth are increasing. One day maybe it will arc weld this iron ball if we don't cross elliptical orbit line with the moon. Tell NASA about the moon and a year and a half later they make Moonfall. They should make a euthanasia for everyone who wants to go, or be stuck to endure the future even if you don't want to be here at all???
With the moon it'd be a tsunami one way and a volcano the other, the future of our relationship with the sun is a different issue
However,
65 percent of the planet would take a synthetic opioid drink by the 10,000 gallon vat and say thanks,
1/3 off the world is starving to death, 5 percent need bones they can't or don't want to get replaced, 5 percent need organs they can't or don't want to get replaced, 5 percent are terminally ill 5 percent chronic pain, 5-10 percent never wanted to be here anyway, and everyone else will have a peaceful way to go when they want. There's no good way to go, some are 18 and 0 and going through death and not actually dying is not fun, some attempts are violent to go through. Instead of making a euthanasia available to everyone who wants to go they kill .08 percent of the world population in two years. Everyone was the target. I would have helped the 65 percent go 8 yrs ago.
They're getting a dime instead of a dollar in creating good
There needs to be a peaceful easy way for everyone when they want to go. Guy saves 1M in state aid, paid 600k in social security, doesn't have to die every day, just gets to leave before suffering. The guy with the kids gets 800 k from Uncle Sam in life insurance he never signed up for and Uncle Sam keeps the other 800k. Free euthanasia. Cut inflation by more than half, more than doubled available resources. Have a job by a company which pays all the taxes and picks up grass clippings M-S to take it to fields now with cows on it, 4x your US cattle with lawn mower clippings from every years, save 2500 on property taxes and make sure your clippings are out in your neighborhood on Tuesdays
Pump desalinated water from ocean wave current into river systems ASAP. It costs the same to print unemployment and section 8 as it fits a job with a paycheck that won't even take your house away
Here's your check if you love your neighbors and don't want to leave your free housing, and here's your bigger check if you want to rent on the private market
More confusing paint corporations pay all the taxes making useful cool jobs like a mint company your paper actually goes somewhere and a quarter turns back into a dollar
Dig out 10 ' of river bed and cast and set two 10' pipelines to being Atlantic ocean water to every house, use steam distiller for salt free disinfected water at the kitchen sink, dump waste water into sealed pipelines. It took a turn 2 years to dig out 10' of riverbed, everyone could be back to work working in every town and we'd be at with new infrastructure. Don't put salt in your water, have more salt for more roads in the winter.
Send salt water straight to homes, they'll use a distiller for their few gallons of driving and cooking water and they're off toilet to tap loop. Use electrolysis for energy from salt water. At the very least, feed rivers with desal water immediately to quickly overcome drought shortages, no problem
Make a grass and corn crop that grows in ocean water hybrid with say, oceanic grass root structures, best genetic corn crop growing in salt water in Texas and Arizona while you solar desalinate more oxygen and hydrogen into the air in a 24/7/365 grow season with ocean water and no weeds growing in salt water crops or lawns, fill your swimming pool with ocean water and water your lawn with salt water, don't put salt in your what salt water put it in the roads, use a small steam distiller made of glass and stainless to get disinfected and salt water free water for cooking and drinking, maybe an ocean let for your pool, were have to deal with ocean water rise, how about a Dolphin?
Make more indoor fish farms, clean fish into a flash freezer, people eat fish, kid makes 90 k a year running fishing equipment not $9 an hour people eat well
People could be cremated visible to the public and the smoke can be required in a gallon of water and the ashes and cement combined and people can be made into a concrete cast or flower pot. Otherwise, if they get cremated, without a filter, or dissolved in alkyld they go down a drain?
And they had that place giving fake ashes and selling bodies
Maybe you could make a wireless Tesla bridge (like when you touch a Tesla ball and the current comes towards you, though you are in the millivolts) to draw CMEs from the sun to say, Mars, maybe you'll stop the earth from frying
i am trying to write a novel but listening to this makes me feel like im wasting my time
Haha. I doubt anyone would be able to follow you if you wrote anything like this. As modern phrasing and narrative style has changed somewhat.
? Well for starters this is an epic poem not a novel so dont worry. Also I feel we have evolved story telling to tell... far more interesting stories
the only time i'm hating english class
My favorite part: 2:46:12
Not my cup of tea lol!
POV: you're crying while you listen because your mom was yelling at you and told you that you won't graduate. lol pov.
1:01:03 page 12 3rd co.
I think my english teacher is just a sadist at this point
Love this as a young man in literature class later I bought the book it was in a poem form as this was later I am not sure which comic book company it was D C or Marvel put out a comic it did not stay out long but what there was of it I loved I am a simple man and normally I don’t understand any of these types of books but this I do love it 👍up to those who put this out
Very nice :)
1:25:07 p 17 co 2
This is actual torture to listen to.
Truth, I have a nice interest with readings like this and the O.E. worlds as well as the Anglo-Saxon era which Beowulf is set. Not much understanding but a bit of interest
I can't describe to you the nothing that I hear when I listen to this. It's not even like a foreign language, it's just white noise. Oh, old English.
This isn’t old English - this is translated into modern English.
@@lazyacademic Probably google translate.
1:25:25 chap 24
my kids do to sleep to this
If the comment section is any indication of the modern educational system we're doomed.
It is. And yes, we are.
I mean, that's been apparent for at least 20 years. I once tried to read my nephew and niece The Hobbit and they kept apologizing and saying they would be good for their mother. I was confused and devastated 😂😂😂
1:25:00
Bruh. This makes no sense
I swear
Do you know what a kenning is? Appreciate a lot of archaic alliteration all at a pace swift? Honestly, if you read below your grade level (or even on-level) Beowulf (and Canterbury Tales for that matter) are probably going to be extremely difficult for you to keep up with. Unless you just really want to learn this stuff on your own, get a Spark or Cliff Notes.
Spark notes saves lives
3:42 episode 1 for ASU students
There are two types of commenters:
1. People genuinely interested in hearing an epic ancient story
2. Pissed off high-school kids complaining about English class
What's a "shild"?
Instrument for battle used in deflecting your enemies sword thrust.
A shielding is a man of war.
They are all shielding so men of war complete.
have you ever had a dream that, that, um, that you had, uh, that you had to, you could, you do, you wit, you wa, you could do so, you do you could, you want, you wanted him to do you so much you could do anything
1:11:33
16:00
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3:42 where my assignment chapter starts
I cant do online school anymore I swear to fucking god I am going to drop out, I'm not even in an honors english class and nothing makes any sense
The epic of Gilgamesh vs the epic of Beowulf, which one is better and which one did it better?
@Yes Sir! -Forget not the Sir Gwain mighty in deed and courage and epic punch.
49:53
The things i do for history classes
Did he just say the n word 30:15
4:31 “whose message had might in many a land”
Okay... Grendel from the movie, I remember Grendel.
im to acoustic for this shit
Beowulf is written in old English not Shakespeare English but oh it’s not even English we as modern people would not be able to understand it
This shit is so ugh
I have to read this for school 😑
Me to bro
Dee's Lyrics TV same
Uncultured and rootless. This story is essential to understand the western mindset.
I finished reading this in school and love it. I'm actually teaching myself Anglo-Saxon.
@@proudsaiyanprince2651ok boomer
COOl. 😁
This is a true story I believe, grendal is a Sasquatch nephilim.
I actually thought the same thing!
@@xcaptainspookyx6115 cool!
6:14 Grendels hatred 2
I get why people are having difficulty. It would help if Tad was more dramatic. Monotone throughout doesn't help those with no grasp of kennings, alliteration, poetry, and poor comprehension of their own modern English language get this story. All that said, if you're one of these bored students who will never appreciate this stuff anyway, the video ain't a shortcut. Just get the damn Cliff Notes and take your 70% on the final exam. You don't need this to sell paint or work at Walmart. Classics are wasted on the unwilling.
3:00 this is literally just words. Yk what I mean?
Magnificent
where is an original old english version? thanks
I’ve looked it up. Good luck understanding a single word. We are so fallen these days
Yea its totally lit fam
Anybody reading this cuz they dont have english class, but they wanna listen to it personally?
Affection-bless kennings, I.
30:11 nine of the what? 🤨
ehm.... yea I might fail this class
Free time.
0:22
30:14 🤨📸
I confess!!! I wrote this!
Beer, dragon-slaying, and more blah.
What's new?
Just here cuz I skimmed read it and needed info for essay, 😁😁😁
I'm only here cause I wasn't paying attention in class.
Such a cool fucking story.
what
what the fuck are they trying to teach me?
Am I the only one who’s here for fun? 😬
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Love Beowulf the Book the person who made the movie should be locked up and put the actual cool story i read this Book so many times in .middle school. Should have taken a couple copies no one read anyway .