eftychia: Me in kilt and poofy shirt, facing away, playing acoustic guitar behind head (cyhmn)
posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2019-04-15

"And so the people had a grand old time for a bit anyway, until this fella now, the absolute horrors in his mind*, began to commit some less than pleasant crimes. This pure mad feen was called Grendel, a notorious outsider - he ruled the marshes and the swampy land [if this isn't Cork then I dunno where it is**]. This miserable boyo hung out for a while in thee home of the langers, ever since the Lord himself had had it up to here with these bloody relatives of Cain - the Eternal Lord (for ever and e
ver Amen) was getting back at him for murder after he gave Abel one too many clatters across the head."
-- from Boyowulf, Alison Killilea's translation (in progress) of Beowulf into Cork slang, ll. 86-109 (I didn't try to figure out exactly which lines match this excerpt from the longer blog post covering 86-109.)

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