Beowulf (FULL Audiobook) 

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

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.

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✨😂😂

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.

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.

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 😒😒

glad you’re enjoying it im currently confused and would rather do anything else but read this

I'm a native speaker and I'm encountering the same problem! This is so tough to go through 😔

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

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.

Bless

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.

Very good...!

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.

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 😂😂😂

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

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

This isn’t old English - this is translated into modern English.

@@lazyacademic Probably google translate.

Small-souled hylic bugbeing exhibits brief awareness of the fact of its doleful condition, if not the gravity of it.

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.

@Yes Sir! -Forget not the Sir Gwain mighty in deed and courage and epic punch.

Yeah, bravo no doubt a prolific man-o-war.

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

wha

I actually thought the same thing!

@@xcaptainspookyx6115 cool!

I’ve looked it up. Good luck understanding a single word. We are so fallen these days

Yea its totally lit fam