Title: Equally good for reading aloud to children
Product review: Tonight my kids and I curled in the backyard by the firepit with blankets and a flashlight so I could read to them this glorious translation of Beowulf. Since I had never read a direct translation before, I thought this might be too sophisticated for them but they like listening to me read so we gave it a shot.Wow! We read for nearly an hour and blew through a third of the book (helps that you only have to read the right hand page since the left is in Old English). We stopped just as darkness had fallen and Grendel was preparing to attack Heorot. The older four children were thoroughly enchanted and even the little ones paid attention. For reference, the kids are ages 12,11,9,7,5, and 3. Kind of makes you wonder why bother with those loathsome children's books when the kids are so enthralled with this! Heaney's translation is a marvel.
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