I have an uncle who fancies himself as well-read – with some justification, I’ll admit.  I studied English Language and Literature at a good university, and had to learn Anglo-Saxon to read the Anglo-Saxon chronicle in the original, but graduating without even opening Beowulf? That left him underwhelmed.  Heaney’s translation, which won the Whitbread Book … More Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney