My ideal course
would have been Celtic Studies but that would have meant a lot more language-based stuff (which I am weak at), and also moving to fucking CARDIFF. No thank you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:04, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I did consider Anglo Saxon Norse and Celtic, but that's traditionally the degree you do just to get into Cambridge
plus I didn't want to go to Cambridge.

Doing Beowulf next year yesyesyesyes I'm a little excited about that.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:06, Reply)

My father used to read it to me when I was a boy, I adore it.
What did you make of the Seamus Heaney translation? I prefer the old Penguin Classics one, I think.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:08, Reply)

I have to say I've only dipped into my SH copy
(though it's a parallel translation... eee) I need to go to the library soon enough, so I'll pick up the PC version.
I'm very very poorly read. I know a lot about these sort of things... though I remember reading an extract when I was about 9, about Grendel picking his way through the hall full of sleeping men... Scary stuff.

I keep meaning to read the Prose/Verse Edda too.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:12, Reply)

I have the Marillion version on a bootleg tape somewhere

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 7 Sep 2010, 11:59, Reply)