Beowulf - Grendel's Ambush

One of Europe's greatest epics, the story of King Hrothgar, the monster Grendel and the hero Beowulf has been passed down in written form for hundreds of generations. 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. Now Available on DVD.
http://www.britishdvdcollection.com/product.asp?item=741952644590

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Film & Animation

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• anglo-saxon
• Benjamin
• Bagby
• british
• classic
• old
• English
• international
• medieval
• renaissance
• Beowulf
• Robert
• Zemeckis

[Sagahwaetichatte]

@compasscar1 Sorry to hear that you are not getting into it. There is a lot of beauty lost as Old English is slowly dying out. We are talking about a language of words such as sceadugenga - shadow stalker, or the concept of the wordhord or breosthord, the treasure of words and thoughts we keep hidden in our breasts as something precious to be shared. A language that has a pronoun for 'us two' (unc) which expresses a union of two without losing their individuality. Gorgeous.

[snozwanger234]

SOOOOO 12 centurys ago.

[jcoschino89]

such beauty and power in the language. its truly breathtaking!

[Heiryuu]

@Shoxjie just so you know i may have a lower IQ than you do but a man or woman that does not respect their heritage isn't worth the air that they breath, and isn't worth the time that i'm spending to rebuke them.

[YanSui01]

@Shoxjie Why do you hate the history of the language you speak and write so much? Just because you don't appreciate the excitement others have for something that reaches back through time and space doesn't mean you need to be so foul to people who do. Where would mathematics be without the historic contributions of generations, from the Babylonians to the Romans to the Caliphate to Sir Newton to today? For some people, the journey is just as important as the end result.

[geordieinjapan]

sounds rather swedish in accent but in vocabulary....yeah. not

[TheRoyalFuzzybug]

@Sagahwaetichatte "Old English is slowly dying out" 

[BeakyRed]

@redredshoes Oh thx. Old english sounds cool

[redredshoes]

@BeakyRed The English translation is being projected on a screen so they can read along.

[austpom333]

@Smorgasbord341 Yes may be

[austpom333]

I rely don't get why people think they need to pronounce the old Anglo - Saxon in such a weird way, this language is easy to understand if it is spoken in a more normal modern English way