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Hwaet! episodes
- Episode 9: Sutton HooLive episode from the most famous of burial grounds: plus, Grendel strikes the hall, and Hwaet's first special guest
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22 min - Episode 8: Epic, bruvWhat makes an epic epic? Plus: Anglo Saxons like it hot (or not), and a hashtag blessed translation
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27 min - Episode 7: So, a monster walks into a bar....Translation nerdery PLUS: Unferth gets salty, and an Anglo-Saxon's ABCs
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23 min - Episode 6: A War on WarsBeowulf appears to be a poem glorifying war - but is that all it is? PLUS: Where Hereot got its name, a thorny problem, and Hrothgar goes off on one
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15 min - Episode 5: No weapons pleaseBeowulf comes before the king: PLUS, a question of faith, and a new year's greeting
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22 min - Episode 4: To Heorot!Beowulf leaves the beach: plus, why there's nothing wrong with failure, and lazy translators get a beating
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17 min - Episode 3: The making of a heroBeowulf arrives: plus, a catastrophic fire, a charred manuscript, and woodpeckers
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18 min - Episode 2: Something wicked this way comesThe monster Grendel arrives: plus, kennings, oral tradition, and how bards became too clever for their own good
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19 min - 17 min
About Hwaet!
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Welcome to Hwaet! - the podcast that literally nobody was asking for but, in 2021, the year that just keeps on giving, here it is for you now: all 3,182 alliterative lines of Beowulf, recited in the…
original Anglo Saxon, with (very) crude translation and historical notes by your ill-educated but extremely passionate guide, Olivia Bell. Let's begin.
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