Title: Exquisite Story and a Wonderful Translation!
Product review: Beowulf is a wonderful epic story, but if you've read a poor translation you won't appreciate that fact. Mr. Heaney has created a terrific translation that reads smoothly and coherently. As a result of reading this version, I developed a new appreciation for the story on account of being able to understand nuances that I had missed before. Beowulf's journey from his struggle with Grendel to his final battle with the Dragon can be viewed as a metaphor for almost any life, and this translation allows the reader to appreciate what the story says about how life should be lived and about how one should approach death. The fact that the book is split with the original text on the left and the translation on the right, illustrates how much our language has changed in a thousand years. I enjoyed the diversion of trying to interpret the orignal text on my own.
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