Episode 8: A Scandinavian Warrior Walks Into a Mead Hall

This week’s episode, we spent our time discussing the epic Old English poem Beowulf.

To drink along: Sky River Mead (sweet)

Fill your mead horn or chalice. Drink deep and think of years worth of epic poetry.

Listen here, or wherever you download your podcasts:
https://anchor.fm/unfortunately-required/embed/episodes/A-Scandinavian-Warrior-Walks-Into-A-Mead-Hall-e3bs0l/a-ab62ot

Special thanks to the following sources:

• Crispin Glover screaming in Grendel-
  
• Podcasts: In Our Time: Beowulf and 5 Minutes in Church History
• Overly Sarcastic Productions Beowulf Summary
• Thug Notes: Beowulf
• Tolkien’s Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
• Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
• Beowulf translated by Tolkien

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