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  1. C'est aujourd'hui la parution de la ré-édition format broché de #Beowulf : Traduction et commentaire de #Tolkien aux Éditions Christian #Bourgois ! 🐉

    Plus de détails, référence et liens de commande sont dispo sur notre fiche biblio 👉 tolkiendil.com/tolkien/biblio/

  2. Fun With Language: Literature in Translation

    Earlier this week I finished Maria Dahvana Headley's translation of Beowulf. It's a story I know well, having read various translations of the poem over the last couple decades. I loved her translation. There's a mix of modern language and archaic formalities. It's a translation you can feel the fun she had in writing it. In undergrad, I majored in Linguistics. Between high school and college, I studied five years of French, four years of Russian, and two years of Japanese. I'm absolute […]

    alexanderkeane.com/2026/04/14/

  3. Finished Maria Dahvana Headley's translation of Beowulf tonight. It scratches an itch for me in being a translation that tries to understand what the text tried to be to its original audience and to translate that to the new audience. Here, we have the boasting translated into a frat-boy-esque narration that totally works.

    (My favorite translation of Eugene Onegin is the Hofstadter one with little translation puns thrown in here and there.)

    #Bookstodon #Translation #Beowulf

  4. Movie TV Tech Geeks #MovieNews #Beowulf #AlanRitchson #Fantasy 19 Years Later, Alan Ritchson’s Forgotten Fantasy Gem Is Officially Dominating on U.S. Streaming dlvr.it/TRg7pG

  5. After stops that took in the Bodleian Library complex and the Radcliffe Science Library, the last stop on the nostalgia tour was the British Library.

    (I wrote large chunks of my PhD thesis camped out there, back in the day.)

    It feels more important than ever to show appreciation for these wondrous and beautiful institutions.

    #nostalgia #oxford #london #library #magnacarta #firstfolio #beowulf

  6. After stops that took in the Bodleian Library complex and the Radcliffe Science Library, the last stop on the nostalgia tour was the British Library.

    (I wrote large chunks of my PhD thesis camped out there, back in the day.)

    It feels more important than ever to show appreciation for these wondrous and beautiful institutions.

    #nostalgia #oxford #london #library #magnacarta #firstfolio #beowulf

  7. After stops that took in the Bodleian Library complex and the Radcliffe Science Library, the last stop on the nostalgia tour was the British Library.

    (I wrote large chunks of my PhD thesis camped out there, back in the day.)

    It feels more important than ever to show appreciation for these wondrous and beautiful institutions.

    #nostalgia #oxford #london #library #magnacarta #firstfolio #beowulf

  8. After stops that took in the Bodleian Library complex and the Radcliffe Science Library, the last stop on the nostalgia tour was the British Library.

    (I wrote large chunks of my PhD thesis camped out there, back in the day.)

    It feels more important than ever to show appreciation for these wondrous and beautiful institutions.

    #nostalgia #oxford #london #library #magnacarta #firstfolio #beowulf

  9. @mjd Spear-shaped, as in "Gardena", the "spear-armed Danes" in the first line of . Not to be confused with the similar gear- in "geardagum" also in that line, meaning "days of yore" (yore/year-days)

  10. FreeBSD cluster setup with total 24 cores is completed. let's move to next phase

    #beowulf #cluster #freebsd

  11. Oh, the irony! 🧐 An article about Beowulf's "What" that opens with a demand for #JavaScript as if ancient epics were composed in HTML. 🍪 But sure, let's pause our digital lives for a cookie break to decode literary history. 🙄
    poetryfoundation.org/poetry-ne #Beowulf #Irony #DigitalLiterature #CookieBreak #HackerNews #ngated

  12. CW: Selfie, eye contact, alcohol, food (meat)

    In a dirt floored, wood-beamed, wool-thatched hut at Park in The Past with @bright_helpings listening to a bard perform #Beowulf and some talented musicians play a variety of #FolkMusic. Mead has been consumed and I'm queueing for a boar burger.

  13. #PhotoMonday #Family #Beowulf #Grendel

    This is my son, pinned down by a ferocious swamp monster, fighting for his life!

  14. Conférence gratuite le 8 octobre à Paris 6e à propos de la nouvelle traduction du poème #Beowulf par W. Rotgé

  15. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 -

    Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!

    waywordsstudio.com/.../way.../

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #ursulakleguin #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #epics #art #gilgamesh #homer #amadisofgaula #beowulf #dungeonsanddragons #williammorris #lorddunsany #genre #trope

  16. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 -

    Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!

    waywordsstudio.com/.../way.../

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #ursulakleguin #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #epics #art #gilgamesh #homer #amadisofgaula #beowulf #dungeonsanddragons #williammorris #lorddunsany #genre #trope

  17. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 -

    Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!

    waywordsstudio.com/.../way.../

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #ursulakleguin #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #epics #art #gilgamesh #homer #amadisofgaula #beowulf #dungeonsanddragons #williammorris #lorddunsany #genre #trope

  18. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 -

    Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!

    waywordsstudio.com/.../way.../

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #ursulakleguin #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #epics #art #gilgamesh #homer #amadisofgaula #beowulf #dungeonsanddragons #williammorris #lorddunsany #genre #trope

  19. 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑰𝒏 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒚 -

    Riddle: What do Beowulf, Palmolive dish liquid, and Sarah Maas have in common? Hint: Ursula K. Le Guin knows!

    waywordsstudio.com/.../way.../

    #podcast #literature #books #bookworm #book #read #readreadread #ursulakleguin #jrrtolkien #lordoftherings #epics #art #gilgamesh #homer #amadisofgaula #beowulf #dungeonsanddragons #williammorris #lorddunsany #genre #trope

  20. New week, Old English!
    Today our featured new book is "The Life Course in Old English #Poetry" by Harriet Soper, who examines the linear & unruly paths thru human, nonhuman & more-than-human lives in #OldEnglish poems

    #LiteraryStudies #AgeingStudies #AgeStudies #Beowulf #EnglishPoetry #MiddleAges

  21. The August issue of Linux Magazine is available now. We help you clean out forgotten files clogging your system. This month's DVD includes @linuxmint 22.1 Cinnamon and nobara 42
    linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025

  22. 🚨🔍 Oh, you mean there's more to Old English poetry than just Beowulf? Shocking! 🙄 Forget learning a living language, let's dive into poems nobody's heard of since 1066. 📜 Surely, it'll make you the life of the party. 🥳
    deadlanguagesociety.com/p/old- #OldEnglishPoetry #HiddenGems #Beowulf #Beyond1066 #LiteraryHumor #PoetryParty #HackerNews #ngated

  23. 🚨🔍 Oh, you mean there's more to Old English poetry than just Beowulf? Shocking! 🙄 Forget learning a living language, let's dive into poems nobody's heard of since 1066. 📜 Surely, it'll make you the life of the party. 🥳
    deadlanguagesociety.com/p/old- #OldEnglishPoetry #HiddenGems #Beowulf #Beyond1066 #LiteraryHumor #PoetryParty #HackerNews #ngated