He has been laid in his barrow

[johan]

Swá hit gedéfe bið þæt mon his winedryhten wordum herge
ferhðum fréoge þonne hé forð scile of líchaman laéded weorðan
swá begnornodon Géata léode hláfordes hryre, heorðgenéatas:
cwaédon þæt hé waére wyruldcyning manna mildust ond monðwaérust
léodum líðost ond lofgeornost.

Yep, I'm done. Ding-dong, the King is dead.

I feel like I should get started both on Heaney's other œuvre and on other recordings of Germanic epics.

Comments

[hanspersson.livejournal.com]

That is, unfortunately, too far away from modern English in order for me to be able to read it at any useful pace and/or level of understanding.

[jophan.livejournal.com]

For me too, I just put it in because it felt appropriate. I can make my way through it slowly and understand most of it, I have enough Old English for that, but not for anything that can be called "reading". Text explication is a different thing.

[bara-fantasier.livejournal.com]

He said: "Eh, I know you and you cannot sing."
I said: "That's nothing you should hear me play piano."

[jophan.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[time-freak.livejournal.com]

If only I knew what the hell any of that meant...