Happy belated birthday!

Happy belated birthday to negolith2! I hope you enjoyed it!

Happy belated birthday!

Happy belated birthday to negolith2! I hope you enjoyed it!

Oh, to have been there!

library_keeper has an entry on the round table on Beowulf. I wish I could have attended! I have seen Benjamin Bagby perform, and I highly recommend it. I've also seen Seamus Heaney read, including from his translation of Beowulf, and while it's not the translation I recommend for getting the best sense of the poem one can get in Modern English, Heaney is well worth hearing.

The British Library has been celebrating Beowulf 1000, a thousand years of the Beowulf manuscript (give or take a couple of decades). I have a link that I have found in more than one place, http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/beowulf/; I keep getting a "403 Forbidden" notice. Does this link work in the UK, or does anyone have a better link? Perhaps it has been taken down since I first received it? I'm a bit perplexed. I can't imagine why they'd block people outside the UK.

I did see the Beowulf manuscript once, where it sits behind glass in the British Library. They had it open to one of the illustrated pages, which meant it wasn't the poem itself, for that has no illustrations.

Oh, to have been there!

library_keeper has an entry on the round table on Beowulf. I wish I could have attended! I have seen Benjamin Bagby perform, and I highly recommend it. I've also seen Seamus Heaney read, including from his translation of Beowulf, and while it's not the translation I recommend for getting the best sense of the poem one can get in Modern English, Heaney is well worth hearing.

The British Library has been celebrating Beowulf 1000, a thousand years of the Beowulf manuscript (give or take a couple of decades). I have a link that I have found in more than one place, http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/beowulf/; I keep getting a "403 Forbidden" notice. Does this link work in the UK, or does anyone have a better link? Perhaps it has been taken down since I first received it? I'm a bit perplexed. I can't imagine why they'd block people outside the UK.

I did see the Beowulf manuscript once, where it sits behind glass in the British Library. They had it open to one of the illustrated pages, which meant it wasn't the poem itself, for that has no illustrations.