Pretty Greene Leaves 🌿 reviewed Beowulf by Maria Dahvana Headley
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4 stars
A wonderful and fresh translation. It takes some getting used to, but it is full of wit, and especially with the skill of Jd Jackson reading it, it really comes alive. Above all, it accomplishes its goal: it tells the story of Beowulf as though a bro is sitting next to you at the bar, with a knack for poetry and word-weaving, bending your ear about a cools story.
With such an apt translation into the vernacular of our particular moment, I suspect this translation may age particularly quickly, and become itself and artifact of our own time. I don't think that's a mark against it, though.
