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Article: Beowulf.
- Article from:
- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Beowulf, read in Anglo-Saxon by Trevor Eaton (`Pearl' label; Wadhurst: Pavilion Records, 1997). Two CDs, total running time 145' 02". Accompanying booklet 12 pp. ISBN 7-27031-96422-3. 25.90 [pounds sterling].
Trevor Eaton's reading of Beowulf, apparently performed in the main from Klaeber's text (though this is nowhere explicitly stated), is a product for which one finds it difficult to imagine a wide audience. Unlike the works of Chaucer, which are accessible enough for non-specialists in their original form to render a version in contemporary pronunciation of interest to a curious general audience, Old English poetry is not something liable to be understood ...