05 March 2010

LOTR: More on the connection with Beowulf

Experience Beowulf in Old English with subtitles. In this remarkable one-man tour de force, Benjamin Bagby (co-founder and director of the Sequentia ensemble for medieval music), accompanying himself on an Anglo-Saxon harp, delivers this gripping tale in the original Old English as it could have been experienced more than 1000 years ago.



OPENING LINES


GRENDEL’S AMBUSH


BEOWULF BATTLE


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