Title: What language was he translating from?
Product review: I was really looking forward to listening to this, and found myself very disappointed. Anglo-Saxon is a language of concrete nouns, active verbs, things happening and things being shown. Instead we have Heaney using such extremely trite phrases as, "Without further ado." Can you see Beowulf doing something without further ado? Of course not; Beowulf just does. Then there was the use of the phrase, "Desperate affair," to describe Beowulf's fight with Grendel. Desperate affair? This does not sound like the way to describe the process of tearing off a Neanderthaloid monster's arm with your bare hands.Heaney's reading voice is frankly not very impressive, and coupled with the translation, made for a disappointing experience.
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