Fun with Beowulf.

[RedXIII]

Beowulf maðelode bearn Ecgðeowes
(Beowulf spoke, the son of Ecgtheow)
Hrothgar maðelode helm Scyldinga
(Hrothgar spoke, the protector of the Scyldings

[ulysses]

1. so how *do* you pronounce "Ecgtheow"

without choking on your tongue?

[6000eliot]

2. Bite your tounge,

or Grendel will sick his mother on you!

[RedXIII]

3. bump

bump

[ZombieNixon]

5. "Edge-thew"

More or less...if you're Kentish. Damn Northumbrians and their weird accents. :hide:

[anarch]

4. ok

Hwæt wē Gār-Dena in geār-dagum
þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon
hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.

Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum,
monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah,
egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð
feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad
weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah,
oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra
ofer hronrade hyran scolde,
gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs god cyning!

[ZombieNixon]

6. Ðæm eafera wæs æfter cenned,

geong in geardum, þone god sende
folce to frofre; fyrenðearfe ongeat

þe hie ær drugon aldorlease
lange hwile. Him þæs liffrea,
wuldres wealdend, woroldare forgeaf;
Beowulf wæs breme (blæd wide sprang),