Hwaet!: Recent Episodes
Olivia Bell
Welcome to Hwaet! - the podcast that literally nobody was asking for but, in 2021, the year that just keeps on giving, here it is for you now: all 3,182 alliterative lines of Beowulf, recited in the original Anglo Saxon, with (very) crude translation and historical notes by your ill-educated but extremely passionate guide, Olivia Bell. Let's begin.
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Live episode from the most famous of burial grounds: plus, Grendel strikes the hall, and Hwaet's first special guest
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What makes an epic epic? Plus: Anglo Saxons like it hot (or not), and a hashtag blessed translation
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Translation nerdery PLUS: Unferth gets salty, and an Anglo-Saxon's ABCs
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Beowulf appears to be a poem glorifying war - but is that all it is? PLUS: Where Hereot got its name, a thorny problem, and Hrothgar goes off on one
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Beowulf comes before the king: PLUS, a question of faith, and a new year's greeting
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Beowulf leaves the beach: plus, why there's nothing wrong with failure, and lazy translators get a beating
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Beowulf arrives: plus, a catastrophic fire, a charred manuscript, and woodpeckers
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The monster Grendel arrives: plus, kennings, oral tradition, and how bards became too clever for their own good
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A time for stories
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