Remind me of a verse, Beowulf edition
Post date: 2024-03-27 03:30:13
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Many years ago I came across a small verse in an English translation of Beowulf. For whatever reason it has stuck with me, but despite searching a lot of translations since then I have been unable to locate it again.

35 years or so ago I read an English translation of Beowulf that included a description of the pool that covers the entrance to the lair of Grendel's mother. It went something like this:

A tarn so foul and fetid
A stag, harried by hunters
Would face its fate
Rather than risk
Plunging in the perilous pool

The class involved reading Beowulf in the original so there's a bare chance that it was the professor's translation. Or, god help me, my own.

I'd love to hear if it rings bells with anyone else.
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