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🗓️ 28 August 2014
⏱️ 25 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to this bonus episode of the History of English Podcast. |
0:13.7 | I'm releasing this episode to let you know that I've completed the Bay of Wolf audiobook |
0:17.2 | that I was working on, and that audiobook is now available. |
0:21.1 | So I wanted to take this opportunity to tell you a little bit about the audiobook, and |
0:25.0 | I'm also going to include an extended excerpt from the book at the end of this episode. |
0:30.6 | First of all, in preparing the podcast, especially the old English portion of the podcast, I've |
0:35.7 | made lots of references to Bay of Wolf, and that's because it's really the most important |
0:40.0 | piece of literature from that period. |
0:42.8 | At some point along the way, I realized that I first read the poem back in the mid-80s |
0:47.1 | when I was in high school, and yes, it has been that long, but I really hadn't read the |
0:52.2 | poem since then, so while preparing the podcast, I went back and read it again. |
0:58.0 | And I also looked around for audio versions of the poem, and I found out that there are |
1:02.4 | lots of modern translations of Bay of Wolf, both in written form and in audio form. |
1:07.7 | In fact, J.R.R. Tolkien's translation was just released a few weeks ago for the first |
1:12.6 | time, but in reading the modern translations or listening to them, you don't really get |
1:18.2 | a sense of the original language, or the way the poet used words for a literary effect. |
1:23.9 | And since the poem is over a thousand years old, there are a lot of references to people |
1:28.0 | and events which don't really make sense to a modern audience. |
1:32.2 | So in those modern translations, you get the story, but you don't really get the original |
1:36.3 | language or context of the poem. |
1:39.1 | I also came across recordings of selected portions of the poem in the original Old English, |
1:45.0 | and it's interesting to hear the sound and rhythm of the original language, but it's |
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